Throughout the newsfeed I see often that someone wants to test my friendship by commanding me to "like and share", leaving me to believe they don't consider me to be a friend unless I do their bidding. I am so sorry people feel a need to to this, it is manipulation and not very friendly.
I consider it rude to demand that we do something someone else wants to test our friendship, it is wrong.
If I see someone declaring that they are testing my friendship based on whether or not I obey them, then I immediately pass it up. My responses to things must be because the Holy Spirit has led me.
Now, having said that, I would suggest that if someone wants us to pass on a message, they would ask politely that we do it and leave it to the Holy Spirit as to whether or not we should.
I prefer our friendship be based on the Scriptures and not on what someone personally wants from us. If I feel led to pass something on, I respond well to an appeal rather than a demand to test me.1
1Corinthians 13:4-7 "4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [a]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
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