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    Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives
    Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives
    Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives
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    Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives

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    Grow in intimacy with God through in-depth Bible study.

    Women of Faith, renowned for its unique combination of personality and truth, offers fresh new messages in four new topical study guides in the popular Women of Faith Study Guide Series.

    Each study guide, teeming with insights and quotes from the conference speakers, provides 12 weeks of Bible study and a leader's guide for small groups.

    Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives uses Scripture to address issues such as:

    • How to have fulfilling friendships with some humor and fun
    • Building lasting and fulfilling friendships
    • Choosing the right kinds of friends
    • Learning to be vulnerable and honest to maximize intimacy
    • How to move past the superficial to spiritually bonded friendships
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateFeb 9, 2009
    ISBN9781418583743
    Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives

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      This study guide focuses on friendship as a relationship with God, with other Christians, and with other people. Bible verses are used to teach the reader the benefits of true friends, and the ways to be a better friend by avoiding jealousy and selfishness. The final chapter is on forgiveness, the special tool that Jesus taught his followers was necessary to become more like him. This book may be used for personal or group study as there is an answer key in the back.

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    Friendship - Women of Faith

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    © 2009 by Margaret Feinberg

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    Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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    Scripture quotations marked The Message are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

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    Foreword

    Introduction: A Wealth of Friends

    Essentials of Friendship

    1 One of Life’s Greatest Gifts

    2 Discovering God as a Best Friend

    3 Discovering God’s Friends

    Your Friendship Circle

    4 Friends Who Teach Us Something

    5 The Inner Circle of Friends

    6 Unexpected Friendships

    Hindrances to Friendship

    7 Untying Knots of Jealousy

    8 Using Your Words As Balm

    9 Ensuring Selfishness Doesn’t Win

    Satisfying Friendships

    10 The Power of Forgiveness

    11 The Power of Unity

    12 The Power of Celebration

    Leader’s Guide

    About the Author

    Foreword

    As a child I used to worry about Oliver Twist. He lived in a cold, drafty orphanage in London and had to beg for more than one bowl of gruel. I could not imagine the desperation required to simply eat one bowl of gruel; to actually beg for more was astonishing. Of course it was the only food he got, so the thin, watery porridge was better than nothing.

    I knew Oliver was a fictional character Charles Dickens thought up, but the fate of Oliver reflected the fears I had about my own future. Since I was an only child with no relatives, it would only take two bad hits to make me an Oliver.

    As I think back to my early concerns for Oliver and myself, those concerns were about isolation, the fear of human disconnectedness. I never experienced that disconnectedness, but the fear of it stayed with me long past the fifth grade.

    In the prison system the most dreaded form of punishment is to be put in solitary confinement. God created us for relationships, and unless one has serious anti-social tendencies, no one wants to live in solitary. It runs counter to our God-given nature.

    Scripture gives good press to the need and healing potential found in human relationship. Jesus traveled and ministered to others in the context of His relationship with twelve disciples. He set a great example for us to pray together, eat together, and experience the highs and lows of life together.

    As you might imagine, human relatedness in the form of friendship is vital to me. One of my favorite verses on friendship is found in Proverbs 27:9. The Message translates it: Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight, a sweet friendship refreshes the soul.A friend refreshes my soul in many ways, but my top three refresher requirements are humor, reciprocity (I talk, you talk, we both listen), and availability. These three refreshers contribute to my experience of connection and bonding. As I take a look at what I’ve just written, wouldn’t those three friendship qualities make for a great discussion group?

    I can just imagine you sitting with a group of women studying Friendship: Cultivating the Relationships That Enrich Our Lives. There’s nothing as bonding as coming together as a group with the intent of learning more about each other, sharing your good times and not so good times, and laughing together over some of the crazy things that happen on life’s journey.

    One of my most memorable study groups included an unlikely participant by the name of Myrtle Tribunal. She was older than the rest of us, wore peculiar clothing, and spoke her mind whenever she felt like it. We were all a little unsure about how Myrtle would fit

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