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Improving Your Relationships

Name: Improving Your Relationships
Author: Dudley J. Delffs
ISBN: 9780891097389

by Dudley J. Delffs

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Synopsis

HOW CAN SOMETHING SO GOOD HAVE SUCH HIGH STAKES?
If "love your neighbor" is the second greatest commandment, then improving relationships is near the top of a disciple's agenda. Most of us aren't in the habit of thinking of our relationships as gambles, but in many ways, we risk part of ourselves every time we interact with someone. On one hand, we long to be known and accepted, loved and appreciated for who we are-rather than for what we do or who we pretend to be. Yet most of us can think of times when we've opened up only to be met with an icy smile, an awkward silence, or someone's withdrawal.
In Improving Your Relationships, you'll explore what makes risk possible, what honesty is and isn't, what it means to love your neighbor and your enemy, what intimacy is and how it nourishes us, and how examining our hearts (rather than skill training) is essential for effective communication.
The THINKING THROUGH DISCIPLESHIP Series: Discipleship is not just learning information, having a quiet time, and being good. Being a disciple has to do with walking as Jesus did. That means that a disciple's goal is to walk through his home, his workplace, the grocery store-everywhere-talking, acting, and thinking like Jesus.
Thinking is the key. Christ wants not only to change what we outwardly do and say, but (more importantly) to transform the core attitudes, values, and motives behind what we say and do.
In the THINKING THROUGH DISCIPLESHIP series you won't find pat answers or sure-fire formulas for Christian growth. Instead, the studies in this series address real issues that people struggle with in their effort to know God, understand His heart, and see their own lives changed. Each study is designed to help you in the process of becoming more like Jesus on the inside.