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Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission

Heuertz, Christopher L.
June 4, 2015

Source: (-0001) Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press

Chris Heuertz, international director of Word Made Flesh, and theologian and ethicist Christine Pohl show how friendship is a Christian vocation that can bring reconciliation and healing to our broken world. They contend that unlikely friendships are at the center of an alternative paradigm for mission, where people are not objectified as potential converts but encountered in relationships of mutuality and reciprocity. (Excerpt)

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