This provocative little book will show you how to grow satisfying, long-lasting friendships through special skills that you can easily learn. John Townsend helps readers work through the eight vital skills necessary for building long-term, rewarding friendships.
Topics include:
#1 The Secret to Rewarding Friendships: Explores our need for human relationships, including what so many of these relationships are missing.
#2 Don't Look Up for Friends: Explains how seeking people who live and work at your socio-economic level, or those whom you may see as beneath you, will help you discover greater spiritual and intellectual riches.
#3 Friendship Is Not About You: Emphasizes how giving your friends lots of space and maintaining a life of your own builds stronger friendships.
#4 Common Interests Fuel Friendships: Helps you seek common interests in others for more fulfilled friendships.
#5 Friends Listen Long and Well: How to hear not just your friends' words but also their hearts.
#6 Give Friends the Grace You Need: How to give as much grace to a friend who has offended as you pray God will give you in your own times of weakness.
#7 Friends Hold Each Other Accountable: How spirituality and emotionally investing in others helps prevent personal failure.
#8 Catch Friends Doing Right Things: How to affirm your friends' gifts and behaviors when you catch them doing or saying right things.
