I say this with humility, the fear of God and my experience.
I don't think it's possible to pursue any friendship or relationship with me outside of my faith... I don't have a life outside of it.
Everything I do, my work, my money, my interests are filtered through my faith. It's my motivation for everything.
If I pursue excellence at work it's because I think Jesus cares about that, even fitness, it's rooted in my faith
I've tried several times to bring people who don't care so much for my faith into my close circle it always ends up in fight, I'll either irritate you or you'll irritate me šš¤£ because why do you think like that?
Heck, a good way to know if I'm serious about being your friend or anything is if I talk about my faith with you... If I don't you're most likely an acquaintance at best
It's so important that the only way a relationship can survive with someone who isn't passionate about my faith is if we keep each other at arm's length.
But that you want to be my guy guy, personal circle, nah, friction and heat will be too much..one of us will wear the other out (it's me, I'll wear you out, I do too much š).
In addition, it's the same reason why I cut people off who threaten my faith. Imagine my whole life built on it and then you're arguing to convince me against it. If you succeed, you've pulled the rug from under my feet, everything will stop and crash eventually.
My friends that know me very well, once I start to show certain signs at work or to my commitment they know that for some reason my devotion is suffering or I'm having a crisis that's touching my ability to practice my faith.
I can go through almost anything if my faith is fine, but once something's wrong there, I could be in the easiest phase of my life and still struggle with doing very simple basic tasks.
Nothing outside of this faith.