Spiritual Friendship: Learning to Be Friends with God and One Another

Acknowledgments There are many to whom I owe thanks for this volume: to my parents who are now also friends; to my first friends and siblings—Isaac and Abigail, Brad and Kiki, David and Jamie, Jon, Matt and Corrie, Mark and Ashley, Tim and Lauren, Brandon and Mary, Aaron; to the many friends of my youth—especially Jon and Ben; to Klaus for both being a friend and for introducing me to the importance of friendship as a pathway to God; to my friends and fellow workers from World Impact—Susie, Ricardo, Heidi, Hector and Lucero, Jorge and Zully, Terry, Judson, Michelle, Tammy, Tracy, Grace, Tim, Don and Cathy, Bryan, Jenn and Rob, Fernando, Virgil, Todd, Bob and Susan, Bob and Chris, Scott and Gina, Marcos and Susie, Dave and Laura, Ryan and Danielle, Illiana and Jorge, Aaron and Lorraina, Byron, and many more; to the faculty and staff of The Urban Ministry Institute (especially Rev. Dr. Don Davis without whose encouragement this project would never have been launched. Don, thanks for being a “friend and fellow warrior”); to friends from Wheaton— especially Dan, Matthew, Carmen, Jay, and Stephanie; to

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