Proverbs 1:8-19 ~ The Instruction Concerning Peer Pressure

Excerpt:

"How do you approach people?" they were asking.  I said, you know, I do not approach people by their race, or their gender, or their lifestyle.  I approach people for who they are—they are an influence.  Every person is going to influence my life in some way, is it going to be for the better or for the worse?  See, this all fits with what he is talking about, who you become in the inner person.  He is saying make a distinction.  I cherish my relationship with the Lord so much, and I understand me as a human being.  I am so influenced by certain kinds of people.  And those influences either help my relationship with the Lord or they hinder my relationship with the Lord.  And so, we have to make a distinction: not about race, not about gender, not about lifestyle, but influence.  How is that person going to influence my life?