Friendship is one of life's purest and greatest pleasures, but no matter how many friends you have, and how close you think you are to them, you probably aren't aware of the tremendous spiritual importance of true friendship and how crucial it is to maintaining peace and balance in our post-Christian society. Author Hugh Black argues that it's actually spiritually dangerous to let friendships remain on the superficial.
But don't despair. Black shows you how to transform superficial friendships into soul-nourishing relationships, bringing them from shallowness and frivolity to a deep communion of mind and heart a communion that will become for you (and for them) a means for spiritual growth.
Spiritual guidance for friends and for married couples, too.If you're married, you'll also find new ways to appreciate the gift God has given to you in your spouse. If you already enjoy the blessings of other mature and spiritually oriented friendships, you'll discover innumerable ways to make them richer.
Best of all, you'll learn how to seek friendship with God. As you discover the joys of this friendship that transcends death, and as you enrich your friendships here on earth, you'll come to see how truly Black speaks when he says that no one would care to live without friends, even if he had all other good things.
In The Art of Being a Good Friend you will learn:
- How true friendship can give you a complete education in the art of living
Whether you really have any true friends at all surprising ways to tell the difference between mere acquaintances and genuine friends
Scripture's shrewd warnings about the pitfalls of socializing and its high view of friendship
Unrequited love: how you can turn it into a source of holy joy, no matter how painful it may be
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