Friends can lift us up when we are down… or break us. Yet, Jesus stated that there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends, and he has called us to live out that love.
Christian friendship is not just a bonus to the spiritual life: it is vital. It can heal, encourage, and transform. But it can also wound, disappoint, betray… and confront us with our limits.
In this book, Rebecca McLaughlin explores this often-overlooked sacred bond: friendship as Jesus lived and taught it. Drawing on the Gospels and the life of Paul, she shows us how to navigate loss, wounds, and disillusionment, and how to offer and receive faithful, sacrificial brotherly love.
Man or woman, single or married, joyful or sad, each of us needs this love. The author guides us to love with faithfulness, courage, and abandon, and to discover that friendship, nourished by Christ, can transform our lives and those of everyone around us.
ISBN : 9782383912583