Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships

How You Can Help Heal Racial Divides, One Relationship at a Time

De: Gary Chapman, Clarence Shuler

Narrado por: Gary Chapman, Clarence Shuler

Read by the authors.

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.

Everyone wants to do something to improve race relations, but many of us don't know where to start. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, lifelong friends Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler will show you how. Through important lessons they have learned, you will learn how to begin and grow authentic friendships across racial and ethnic barriers.

Each chapter will guide you toward deeper understanding of what it takes to foster cross-cultural friendships. These powerful lessons include:

• How to overcome the fear of developing cross-cultural friendships
• How to differentiate true friends from mere acquaintances
• How Jesus initiated cross-cultural relationships
• The first two steps to your own cross-cultural friendship
• Three ways to resolve conflict in a cross-cultural friendship
• How to make friendships last a lifetime

Chapman and Shuler challenge every reader to join a movement, the Cross-Cultural Friendship Challenge, and begin changing the world one friendship at a time.

Reflection questions are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler (P)2022 Zondervan

A biblical solution to a very real problem

What a beautiful testimony to the power of the love of Christ at work in the lives of those who yield to Him! Love is listed first in the fruit of the Spirit. Showing love to someone who society has said you should hate is a wonderful demonstration of Christ. However, as Clarence and Gary help us understand, what we think is a show of love may be offensive to someone of another culture. Take time to learn, and take time to love.

A Must Read/Listen

This is a must read for anyone looking to help save America from continuing race issues. Building relationships is the first step! This books shares how to start!

Making a cross-cultural friend can change your life and even our world

Our country needs this book now more than ever. A 50-year-old friendship is rare today ... but even more so when it is a cross-cultural one between a black man and a white man. Many would say that is impossible, but it can and has happened. Do you have a friend from another culture or race? As authors Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler share their close, cross-cultural friendship, the reader learns about how special these friendships can be. Read and discover the rich rewards, the relational challenges, and the impact of cross-cultural friendships. This book helps the reader catch a glimpse of what it means to "walk in the shoes" of someone from another race or culture. Here's the encouragement that is shared several times in the book: Imagine what would happen in our nation, or in any nation, if each of us had a least one personal relationship from someone of another race or culture. Such intentionality could revolutionize and benefit the world in which we live.

Must read for Christians today

This book strips away fear and apprehension and provides valuable insight to building valued relationships across racial and cultural divisions. The empathetic authors writes encourages us well to be more like Jesus.