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11: Indispensable Relationships You Can't Be Without
As believers, our journey is just as important as the destination. And because relationships are essential to our walk through life, it is vital that we partner with people who positively impact our world.
Dr. Leonard Sweet believes these essential people are found in the pages of God's Word. Using eleven classic figures from the Bible, Dr. Sweet details key personal attrib...more
Dr. Leonard Sweet believes these essential people are found in the pages of God's Word. Using eleven classic figures from the Bible, Dr. Sweet details key personal attrib...more
Hardcover, 264 pages
Published
April 1st 2008
by David C. Cook
(first published January 2008)
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In his book 11: Indispensable Relationships You Can't be Without Sweet is whimsically theological, grabbing different characters in the Bible and using them as examples of all the different kinds of friends we should all have. I enjoyed reading it, and thought that, although almost devotional in nature, Sweet still took a "theology of friendship" seriously. As always, his book is full of footnotes, and his word play moves from groaners (he loves puns), to the profound. The questions Sweet asked...more
Wow! What is it that the "one another" passages are leading us to? It is, in Sweet's terms, a life lived in the midst of "indispensable relationships." We can not do it alone (we are not a rock or an island), nor will one other person fulfill all are needs... so we need "withnesses." One of my favorite quotes, "Yes, sometimes we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. Other times we're sourrounded by a great closd of witless. But most of all we need to be surrounded by a great clod of With...more
Sweet and I have a love-hate relationship... Sometimes I feel as though he is intentionally trying to come off as hip and a contemporary philosophe. At other times I am moved to inspired tears by his writing! Such is the case with this book... But it receives a 'highly recommend' for two passages. 1) As he talks about his home life, growing up in poverty stricken Appalachains; and 2) the idea of a geo-sabbatical - because our spirituality has an intimate link to our geographical context.
This is an interesting look at the most important relationships that you need to have that come from biblical characters. The book got me thinking about the relationships that I currently have and how they work in my life. I felt some of the chapters gave a belabored explanation of the relationships and in other chapters I felt the premise for the relationship discussed was a little flimsy. Overall it's a decent read but not great.
I thoroughly loved this one. It is so easy to not realize how important are friends are to our souls. I have recommended this book to others often. Sadly I doubt some took the time, yet those who did liked this book as well.
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it had moments few as they may have been. this seems to have been directly taken from a lecture or class and did not flow well or even at times make much sense
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Leonard I. Sweet is an author, preacher, scholar, and ordained United Methodist clergyman currently serving as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School, in Madison, New Jersey; and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon.
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