Enduring Friendship, Bryan C. Loritts
Enduring Friendship, Bryan C. Loritts
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Enduring Friendship
Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriending

Author: Bryan C. Loritts, John Mark Comer

Narrator: Bryan C. Loritts

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2024

Synopsis

Friendships are difficult.

Sometimes it can seem as if friends are more work and pain than they're worth, with friendship challenges that we have to endure and struggle through. Life gets in the way of our well-intentioned efforts to connect. Conflicts and differences over serious issues divide us and make us think that we could never be close to a person ever again. In today's cancel culture, it's easy to give up on people and just walk away, leaving us all more isolated than before. How can we build real relationships that are life giving and pass the test of time?

Bryan Loritts mines one of the Bible's least-known books for insights into how friendships can flourish even in the midst of sin and brokenness. With careful exposition and insight, he unpacks how the apostle Paul helped Philemon and Onesimus reconcile a most unlikely relationship with truth, repentance, and grace. With God's work and steadfast love, even the most painful relationships that have ruptured are not beyond the reach of forgiveness and reconciliation. Discover how friendships that are hard can be transformed into friendships that endure.

About Bryan C. Loritts

Bryan C. Loritts is teaching pastor of the Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina. He has dedicated his life and ministry to seeing the multiethnic church become the new normal in our society. He is also vice president for regions for the Send Network, the church planting arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, where he is responsible for training church planters in multiethnic church planting. He has been a featured speaker at the Global Leadership Summit and Catalyst. He is the award-winning author of eight books, and he and his wife, Korie, have three adult children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JT on March 09, 2024

I appreciated the humility and life examples that Bryan used to breakdown the story of Philemon and Onesimus. I’ve never thought of that book of the Bible as a foundation for friendship but took away a great deal of reminders of the grace that empowers and restores friendships. I felt very convicted......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on March 14, 2024

Bryan’s vulnerability and willingness to talk about friendship is refreshing because it echos the truth of what many of us have experienced.......more

Goodreads review by Josh on January 15, 2024

Good friendships are hard to find. They’re even harder to keep. In this short volume, using the book of Philemon, Bryan Loritts walks readers through the value of Enduring Friendship. Loritts begins with his own story of lost friendships. I was struck by how much it mirrored my own, perhaps indicati......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on May 11, 2024

Where to begin. My biggest gripe with this book is that it is to short, but that is a personal opinion. The fact that it is a quicker read actually strengthens the message that Bryan is trying to get across. There is an urgency in this issue that is facing our culture, but not just ours others acros......more

Goodreads review by Otis on June 17, 2024

Excellent execution. Dr Bryan C Loritts has done it again. The only way he draws out the tension within the tiny book of Philemon was superb. Dr Loritts is able to present this letter that Paul wrote Philemon about “their” new brother in Christ, Onesimus. This will appear to be a dichotomy for Phile......more

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