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On the latest Equipping You in Grace episode, Dave Jenkins, and Drew Hunter discuss the importance of friendship in the Christian life and ministry, along with his book, Made for Friendship: The Relationship That Halves Our Sorrows and Doubles Our Joys (Crossway, 2018).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- Discovering how and why to pursue friendship in marriage.
- Learning how to fight burnout in ministry by cultivating friendship with our spouse and others.
- The importance of affirming and encouraging one another in friendship.
- Some practical advice to minister to a friend in deep distress.
- In what way friendship is the ultimate end of our existence and the highest source of happiness.
- How technology can hinder our friendships.
- Real friendship as the missing medicine for many of our afflictions.
- The six unique joys of friendship.
- Some of the characteristics that define true friendship.
- Beginning to cultivate better friendships.
- Cultivating friendship and pulling up the relational weeds that invest our friendships.
- Friendship with Jesus as the apex of the glory of God.
- Learning to cultivate daily friendship with Christ.