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No Greater Love

A Biblical Vision for Friendship

This book about Christian friendship helps us to love our friends as Jesus loves us.

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"Greater love has no one than this: that he lay down his life for his friends". (John 15:13)

Our culture idolises romance and the love of parents for their children. But Jesus said there was no greater love than sacrificial friendship love. What's more, He issued a command to His disciples that they live into this kind of love. Christian friendship isn't just a nice-to-have. It's vital. But it's also dangerous.

Friends can pull us up when we're knocked down, embrace us with their love, and spur us on to follow Jesus better. But friends can also grind us to the ground, exploit, or invite us into sin.

In No Greater Love, Rebecca McLaughlin walks us through the highs and lows of friendship love—a love that's been neglected and malnourished in our modern world. She draws especially on Jesus in the Gospels and on Paul to show how powerful and precious Christian friendship is and how we can walk through the hurt, loss, and disillusionment that comes from broken friendship trust. Beginning with the words of Jesus on the night he was betrayed and abandoned, she points us to His battle-tested love as the unending source of our best love for one another.

Male or female, single or married, joyful or lamenting, lonely or embraced, we all need friendship love. This book will help us give and receive it in a way that calls us back to Jesus's commandment: that we love each other just like He loves us.

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Contents

  • Introduction

    chapter 1: No Greater Love
    chapter 2: Nontraditional Family
    chapter 3: My Very Heart
    chapter 4: Comrades in Arms
    chapter 5: The Inner Ring
    chapter 6: Bodybuilding
    chapter 7: Your Unexplored Self
    chapter 8: Brothers and Sisters
    chapter 9: Loving Neighbors
    chapter 10: Life Together

    Acknowledgments
    Notes

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Contributors Rebecca McLaughlin
ISBN 9780802428929
Format Paperback
First published September 2023
Dimensions 140mm x 216mm x 10mm
Weight 0.22 kg
Language English
Pages 176
Publisher Moody Books
Endorsements

Sam Allberry

In a time of such profound loneliness and isolation it's hard to think of a more urgent book than this one. The health of our churches and strength of our witness are both bound up with our understanding of the beauty and importance of the kind of friendship Jesus is inviting us into. This is the most significant book I've read in many years.

Jen Wilkin

Author, None Like Him and Women of the Word

Friendship is a dying art. In an age in which any strong emotion toward another person is interpreted as romantic or sexual, Rebecca offers Christians a much-needed corrective. Not only can we love one another deeply and genuinely, we must. Where else will the world witness the pricelessness of a friend who sticks closer than a brother, if not in the church? Imagine what a light in the darkness we would be if we committed to love one another and to love our neighbors as only those unbound from the fear of relational loss can do. No Greater Love gives us an excellent place to start the work of reclaiming the essential art of Christian friendship. I absolutely loved this book.

J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear is the pastor at The Summit Church

I haven't read a book on friendship in a decade, and this felt so fresh. Whether you are single or married, young or old, male or female, this is the book you need to read this year. Rebecca demonstrates that friendship is a lost art and the missing element in most churches. Its absence robs every other part of our lives. This is a delightful, important, and (crucially) biblical book.

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