Fellowship: Example 1- Being there for one another

The other day, I called up one of my church members (we're kind of friends). I call her up to ask her why she hasn't really been coming out on Fridays and Sundays to Church. Well, she tells me her reasons for not coming. For Fridays, she has had a job and didn't tell us about it. Then, for Sundays she told me some BS reasons and a couple of legitimate ones. By BS, I don't mean she is lying, I mean that she is being unwise in her motives, but I won't go into explaining all of that. Her legitimate reason was the fact that she didn't want to go to Church because the people there are fake, which I totally agree with. They call each other friends, yet they do not care to call or notice when someone did not come to Church, they do not uplift each other to become better Christians, instead they gossip, and they do not reach out to the shy or new members of the Church, instead they stick to their own comfort zones in their own clique of friends. Most of the friendships are very shallow and easily dropped once a person becomes disagreeable, annoying, sensitive, depressed, etc. My friend said that she didn't want to come because, even though she likes her friends, she knows that the Church should not be like that and was discouraged from going.

     Then, she was discouraged from RETURNING because nobody called her until I did, which was after she had missed Church several times (could have been anywhere between three weeks to a couple of months, I don't know.) So when I called, she told me all this, and I realized, as a Christian, I should have noticed that she was missing Church and contacted her WEEKS before that day. That would have been an act of fellowship that our Church lacks so much. She started crying and we talked for a while over the phone. I told her that I would be, for her, the friend she wanted, a true friend. I basically told her that I would be committed to fellowshipping with her, being there for her, making sure she's okay, helping her when she is not. Friendship is a big committment, not to be taken likely, and I made it to her.  It was a little corny how I told her that I would be her friend, but I'm glad she didn't call me out on it.