People to avoid...
1. Those who only tell you what you want to hear
2. Those who feed your discontent
3. Those who encourage you to settle for the easy thing over God's best
4. Those who encourage you to "follow your heart" over God's wisdom
5. Those who oppose wise counsel in your life and to to seperate you from it

How to Avoid Bad Company
2. Listen to and follow Godly counsel

1 Kings 22:15-17 NLT

What Godly Counsel Looks Like...
1. They speak the truth in love
2. They feed your joy
3. They push you to God's best
4. They give you God's wisdom
5. They surround you with other wise counsel

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How to Avoid Bad Company
3. Be the Godly influence

2 Chronicles 19:4 NLT

What Godly Counsel Looks Like...
1. Make your private practices align with your public declarations
2. Be an encourager, speak life
3. Lean into wise counsel and act upon wise advice
4. Count the cost and pay the price to do the right thing always

1 Corinthians 11:1 NLT