Preached a sermon recently about friends we’ve not met yet, based on Paul’s lengthy list of saints in Romans 16:1-16, which begins: “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well” (v.