How To Be A Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships

This provocative little book will show you how to grow satisfying, long-lasting friendships through special skills that you can easily learn. John Townsend helps readers work through the eight vital skills necessary for building long-term, rewarding #1 The Secret to Rewarding Friendships Explores our need for human relationships, including what so many of these relationships are missing. #2 Don't Look Up for Friends This provocative little book will show you how to grow satisfying, long-lasting friendships through special skills that you can easily learn. John Townsend helps readers work through the eight vital skills necessary for building long-term, rewarding friendships. Topics #1 The Secret to Rewarding Friendships Explores our need for human relationships, including what so many of these relationships are missing. #2 Don't Look Up for Friends Explains how seeking people who live and work at your socio-economic level, or those whom you may see as beneath you, will help you discover greater spiritual and intellectual riches. #3 Friendship Is Not About You Emphasizes how giving your friends lots of space and maintaining a life of your own builds stronger friendships. #4 Common Interests Fuel Friendships Helps you seek common interests in others for more fulfilled friendships. #5 Friends Listen Long and Well How to hear not just your friends' words but also their hearts. #6 Give Friends the Grace You Need How to give as much grace to a friend who has offended as you pray God will give you in your own times of weakness. #7 Friends Hold Each Other Accountable How spirituality and emotionally investing in others helps prevent personal failure. #8 Catch Friends Doing Right Things How to affirm your friends' gifts and behaviors when you catch them doing or saying right things.