Disagreements with Friends and Peace Makers — Episode 33

Okay, so today we are going to kind of come at friendship from a different direction.

And we're going to talk about disagreements in friendship, okay? We want to discuss how we as followers of Jesus can have loving friendships with people that we have disagreements with, right?

Mm-hmm.

I have a question for you.

Can a friendship survive when there is a core belief that you and a friend differ on? I believe that it can.

We happen to know firsthand that it can.

And so I want to tell y'all, our listeners, something that happened to us a week or so ago.

But first, before I do that, I just need to give you a little bit of context.

Most of you know that several years ago, Michael Passans, formerly of the group Avalon, traveled on the road with us and he played keys for us.

He's an incredible piano player.

And during that period, as you do when you travel with people, you get to know each other so well.

And we all became really close friends.

Very close.

And the three of us girls just really love him.

Love him so much.

And he always called us his songbirds.

He was always like, my little songbirds.

And he's just a kind human.

Very much so.

I mean, there's

really

no other way to say it.

But I think it was around 2020-ish, y'all correct me if I'm wrong, that Michael came out as a gay man.

And it was roughly around that same time that he stopped traveling and playing piano for us.

And, you know, he may not have been our piano player anymore, but we never stopped loving him.