In today’s society, we are getting really good at making enemies.  According to one case study, the average American adult hasn’t made a new friend in five years (between 2018 and 2023).

These are some excellent articles on making good friends (#3 is a short video):

1. How to Be a Good Friend: 16 Ways to Be a Friend

2. 10 Tips for How to Make Friends

3. HOW TO BE A BETTER FRIEND

4. How to Make Friends As An Adult In 5 Easy to Use Steps

The Bible has some tips too:

• A friend loves at all times
• A man that has friends has shown himself friendly
• The sweetness of a man’s friend comes with good counsel
• Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
• if they fall, the one (friend) will lift up his comrade
• Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the outlook of his friend
• Don’t neglect you own friend, and your father’s friend
• if one is attacked, his friend will help him resist; and a second friend’s help is even better