Talk (friends - Toy Story II)

Introduction

To introduce tonight's subject, I thought we could watch a short clip from Toy Story II
Has anybody seen it?
It's a good film…to me it's really about one thing: friendship
Something that is important to all of us.
The bit we are going to watch is about 5 mins long
If you haven't seen the film I'll tell you what's happened:
- About toys that come to life
- Their all friends
- And one of the toys, a cowboy call woody has been kidnapped by a toy collector
- All of Woody's friends of got together to save him…
[Clip: Toy story II]
- 58 mins - Buzz jumps out of the car - they have just come from the toy mart. "He's on level 23…"
- 1 hr 5 mins: 1 min latter when the fake buzz says "Will somebody please explain what's going on...your majesty..."

Woody's friends risked their lives to rescue him
The kind of friends I'm sure we all want
And I hope that's the kind of friends we all want to be
But the thing is, it does always work like that
- Some of us have lots of friends
- Some of us are always falling out
- Some of us maybe feel like we have no friends
- It can get us down
I don't know how many of you have read from the Bible
But it tells us that God wants to be our friend
He thinks of us as "family"
1 John 3 P1318
"The Father [God] has loved us so much that we are called children of God…"
John 15 13-14 P1085
"The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you"
Now it will soon be Easter - the time when we celebrate just that, dying for his friends, you and me

Matthew 11:28 P928
"Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest"
One of the great things about friends is been able to talk about stuff, to be honest. God is away there…

I thought we could finish be praying for our friends using a prayer "tree"
Print out this for picture and ask people write on names the names of their friends at end of the branches