Tyndale House Publishers</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>2017 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist (Faith and Culture category)</b><br/><b>Is <i>real</i> friendship too risky?</b><br/>We live in a world where real friendship is hard to find. Suspicious of others and insecure about ourselves?? we retreat into the safety of our small?? self-made worlds. Now more than ever?? it??s easy to avoid people with whom we disagree or whose life experiences don??t mirror our own. Safe among like-minded peers and digital ??friends???? we really don??t have to engage with those who can challenge and enhance our limited perspectives. Tragically?? even the church can become a place that minimizes diversity and reinforces isolation.<br/><br/>Jesus models a much richer vision of friendship. Scott Sauls?? pastor and teacher?? inv