Can Christian Men and Christian women be friends?
The question is a powder-keg. Those who immediately answer “yes” can hurl as many barrels of anecdotal evidence as those who scream “no.” Few treat this as a legitimate issue — opinions are given in a tone that implies that the very question violates common sense. Different answers are given. Different passages are cited. Different hills are constructed and died on. So, can Christian women and men be friends? To start, multiple kinds of male-female friendships deserve unique attention. A single woman and a married man. A married woman and a single man. A married woman and a married man. A single woman and a single man. What do these friendships look like? Should they exist? Does God prohibit them, or are they vital to the body of Christ ? Are they obviously inappropriate, or undeniably essential in healthy church community? It seems to me, after considering the biblical evidence, that male-female friendships lean even more heavily on a process that exists in al