Enduring Friendship

Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriending

By: Bryan C. Loritts, John Mark Comer - foreword

Narrated by: Bryan C. Loritts

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.

©2024 Bryan Loritts (P)2024 eChristian

Great and needed look at relationships.

Easy read and much needed. The use of onesimus and Philemon brings to life the tensions of most friendships. Well done articulating these things often felt but mostly also often wrongly names. I did find the authors insistence on articulating the punctuation (parentheses, quotations) very unneeded. And at times an obstacle to staying with the story.

Excellent

Excellent execution. Dr Bryan C Loritts has done it again. The only way draws out the tension within the tiny book of Philemon is superb. He is able to present this letter that Paul is writing him about their new brother in Christ Onesimus. This will appear to be a dichotomy for Philemon initially, but how will he react and/or respond to this possible dilemma.

This book, Which Enduring Friendship, is timely especially in our current culture. Dr Loritts subtitle, Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriendly, is befitting. How would respond to a brother’s or sister’s request for you to do what Paul’s asking Philemon? To get a fresh perspective on the idea, check out this book. Highly recommended.