Christian Friendship: An Emotional Attachment

“You can’t trust your feelings.” “Don’t make emotional decisions.” “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). The heart and its strong feelings are clearly to be held in check in many contexts. But who can love an aloof and unemotional man who goes through life without feeling? A man without emotions is hard to love. In the context of buying your next car, planning a great vacation, and choosing a college, this advice to “be more rational...