Transformative Friendships: 7 Questions to Deepen Any Relationship

by Brad Hambrick

Overview

Building meaningful friendships is not as easy as we wish it was. A culture that is lonelier and more disconnected than ever proves how hard it can be. In Transformative Friendships, counselor Brad Hambrick encourages readers to develop new rhythms, habits, and lifestyles that will shape and grow your relationships, both with casual acquaintances and closer friends. He shares seven simple questions that will help you be intentional with your relationships and offers a springboard to deepening and strengthening friendships that will enrich your life.

The goal is not to develop perfect friendships, but rather learn to how to cultivate deep connections that grow steadily over time through conversations based on simple questions and common interactions. Hambrick's biblical vision for friendship calls Christians to engage with one another in the transformational way God intended.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185778500
Publisher:	New Growth Press
Publication date:	03/18/2024
Series:	Church-Based Counseling
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Brad Hambrick, ThM, EdD, serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He is also Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Brad is the author of several books, including Making Sense of Forgiveness, Angry with God, and the Church-Based Counseling series, and served as general editor for the Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused curriculum.

Editorial Reviews

Here in his latest work, Brad Hambrick encourages us to build simple and meaningful friendships in a way that feels neither programmed nor painful. He offers a simple framework of questions that can be extrapolated in a million different ways but ultimately leads you toward a deeper, richer sense of knowing one another. I'm thrilled that what I get to experience regularly in my friendship with Brad is now yours to share through this enriching and engaging book.

Executive Director, Fieldstone Counseling - Jonathan Holmes

What Brad offers to us in these pages is a timeless framework for nourishing personal relationships. If you're looking for a practical guide for cultivating friendships with wisdom and intention, this helpful book is it!

Author of Midnight Mercies: Walking with God through Depression in Motherhood; Hope + Help Podcast host, Institute of Bi - Christine M. Chappell

What makes friendship good? How can we enlarge our care for one another? As a skilled physician of the soul, Brad Hambrick combines his rich understanding of Scripture with his genuine curiosity about people and then beautifully articulates this doctrine of transformational friendship. Leave it to Brad to carefully and methodically communicate a message that the body of Christ is so desperate to hear.

Executive Director, Help[H]er - Ann Maree Goudzwaard

In a world of inch-deep and mile-wide relationships, there seems to be a gap between people's desire for rich friendships and the lack of depth in their current relationships. This book is not only a gospel-saturated reflection of that pursuit but a tangible roadmap for helping you get there. A timely resource that I think all church leaders should have on their shelves.

Executive Pastor of Next Gen, Biltmore Church, Arden, NC - Jason Gaston

Living in a time when loneliness and isolation are reaching epidemic proportions, Transformative Friendships tells a better story and points to a better way. Offering rich insights aimed at building lasting friendships, Brad Hambrick winsomely hands the reader seven 'simple and meaningful' questions to ask that will undoubtedly deepen any relationship. This book is immensely practical and desperately needed.

Lead Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC - Will Toburen