 Should Christians have ungodly friends? For context, I'm talking about friendship, not courtship. The scripture is clear that Christians should not date or marry non-believers. Yet on the subject of friendships, on one hand, the scripture declares bad company ruins good morals. On the other hand, we see that Jesus spent time with sinners. I understand we aren't Jesus, but still, he modeled for us what it looks like to win the lost. Is the scripture contradicting itself? By no means. The Bible is giving us balance. We aren't supposed to hide away and quarantine the gospel. Neither are we to live like the world and be influenced by its patterns. In that balance, we see the key to discerning which friendships we should cut. Friendship with the world is enmity with God. So the question is this, does that friendship consist of you influencing them in a godly way, or of them influencing you in an ungodly way? If the light is gaining influence, God is in it. If darkness is gaining influence, cut it off. It's as simple as that. I believe in divine connections, but also in divine disconnections.