Known: Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World - Softcover

Foth, Dick; Foth, Ruth

 
9780735289758: Known: Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0735289751 ISBN 13: 9780735289758
Verlag: PRH Christian Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In an often shallow and fast-paced world, how can we really know and be known by another person?  How do we make true friends?
 
The Digital Age is all about change, but the need for true friendship never changes.  You are designed for real engagement with others---for affirmation that goes beyond a simple “like” on social media, for connection over meals, for hope and excitement about the future. Above all, you need to be known and accepted for who you are. But how do you  find and maintain this kind of friendship in a fluid and frenetic culture?
 
In Known, Dick and Ruth Foth offer inspiration and proven practices to build relationships through personal storytelling and affirmation. They draw on years of mentoring, rich relationships, and the model of Jesus to show you why friendship is one of the keys to a full life and the greatest gift we can give to each other.

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Dick Foth is an author, storyteller, and popular speaker. He holds a master’s degree from Wheaton College Graduate School and a doctorate from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. He and Ruth have invested the last twenty-five years working in the marketplace of business and government to encourage leaders in their personal lives.  Dick also serves on the teaching teams of four congregations, including the multisite National Community Church pastored by Mark Batterson in Washington, D. C. 

Ruth Foth has an English degree from Bethany College in California and she is a homemaker, gardener, and quilter. The Foths live in Colorado and have four children and many grandchildren.

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Foreword
 
If you gave me a word association test and said, “Relationships,” my immediate response would be, “Dick Foth.” I’ve never met anyone who does relationships better! And I’ve been the beneficiary of that fact for two decades now. Of course, it takes two to tango. And one of the beautiful things about this book is that we don’t just get Dick’s viewpoint; we also get Ruth’s reflections! And trust me, when Ruth speaks you want to listen very closely, very carefully! There is a raw honesty and profound dimensionality to this book because it’s two-part harmony.
 
When I was a rookie pastor trying to find my way in ministry and in marriage, Dick Foth befriended me. Dick and Ruth invited Lora and me over to their home for our first Thanksgiving in Washington, DC. When Ruth served up a warm berry cobbler for dessert, I knew it was a friendship that needed to be cultivated!
 
Dick Foth has been a spiritual father to me for more than two decades now. He’s been a sounding board for difficult decisions. He’s offered encouraging words during tough times. And he’s not afraid to ask the tough questions! In fact, he rarely asks me how I’m doing. He usually asks me how my wife and children are doing! Dick knows that it’s our relationships with those who are closest to us that is the best barometer of how we’re doing personally!
 
Simply put, there isn’t anyone I’ve learned more from than Dick Foth. And you’re about to discover why I love and honor Dick and Ruth so much. This book is pure gold—gold that has been refined by seventy-five trips around the sun and fifty years of marriage. You’ll find a few theories in this book, but those theories are backed up by hard-earned, down-to-earth lessons about life, love, and catching tadpoles!
 
Dick and Ruth now live near Fort Collins, Colorado, but Dick graciously returns to Washington, DC, to speak at National Community Church several times a year. Every time I announce that he’s coming, our church gives him an ovation. For the record, they don’t clap for anyone else, including me! Our congregation is very young—about half are twentysomethings—and my theory is that Dick is the grandfather they always wish they had. You’ll feel the same way about Dick and Ruth just a few pages into this book.
 
Dick is one of my favorite communicators, one of the best communicators on the planet. He can tell a story like nobody’s business. But after listening to his preaching for more than twenty years now, I think I know his secret sauce. No matter what text he’s speaking on, no matter what context he’s speaking in, he has a reassuring message that comes through calm and clear: it’s going to be okay!
 
Dick and Ruth have weathered some storms, including the divorce of Dick’s parents. They’ve walked through their fair share of tough times as husband and wife, father and mother. And they’ve been good old-fashioned friends to so many people during Dick’s tenure as pastor, college president, and friend to some of the most powerful people in politics during their years in Washington, DC. But through thick and thin, despite all the ups and downs, they’re still standing. And not just standing, smiling!
 
The sad reality is that we live in a very shallow world, but if anyone can help you build deep friendships, it’s Dick and Ruth Foth. Whether it’s overcoming the aches and pains of loneliness or taking your friendships to a deeper place, you’ve come to the right place.
 
A book is a two-way street. The authors invite you into their lives, and you get to discover a whole new world. I think you’ll love Dick and Ruth’s world. But the reader also invites the authors into their world. I believe your life will be better because of it. I know mine has been forever imprinted, forever impacted.
—Mark Batterson
  
Introduction
 
What Really Matters
 
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
—William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
 
The question I asked the university student was casual.

“What’s a word that you’d use to describe your generation?”
 
He said, “Overwhelmed!”
  
I said, “What do you mean? What are you overwhelmed by?”
  
When I heard overwhelmed, I saw my parents—born in 1910 and 1913 respectively—who lived through World War I, the influenza epidemic of 1917–18, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and World War II.
 
“Information,” he said. “My generation is overwhelmed by information.”
 
When he said information, two facts I had recently seen popped into my head: Children born in the 1990s belong to the first generation in the history of the world that
- do not have to go to an authority figure for information,1 and,
- will be able to access more new information that will be generated this year than in the previous five thousand years combined!2
 
“But you’re so connected to each other,” I continued.
 
He said, “Oh, yes! I’m connected to several dozen people through Facebook and Twitter. I just don’t know how to start a conversation.”
 
His words jarred me. For me, face-to-face conversation is the stuff of life. My thoughts zipped to Penn Station in New York City ten years earlier. Ruth and I were sitting in a hole-in- the-
wall Pizza Hut waiting for our train to Washington, DC. An older woman approached our table and asked if she could join us because seating was scarce. “Absolutely,” we said.
 
As we talked, she told us of graduating from a major midwestern university as a young woman and going to work for Hallmark in their creative department. She rose to the executive ranks in marketing, where she spent the rest of her career and from which she retired. When we asked, “What brought you to New York?” she said that she had been talked into coming out of retirement two years earlier to join the marketing department of a large New York company.
 
When I asked, “What’s the biggest difference in the workplace now for you?” she replied, “It bothers me when a young person sends me an e-mail on a subject, while sitting five feet away in the next cubicle.” “Why does that matter?” I asked. “It’s efficient.” She got quiet for a moment, then looked straight at us and said, “I miss the face-to-face, the eye contact. Eye contact makes us human.” I doubt that she had read the work of Atsushi Senju, a cognitive neuroscientist, who says, “A richer mode of communication is possible right after making What Really Matters 3 eye contact. It amplifies your ability to compute all the signals so you are able to read the other person’s brain.”3
 
The older woman wasn’t making a scientific statement. She was making a visceral statement. Just like my young university friend.
 
When the young man said, “Overwhelmed” and “I don’t know how to start a conversation,” it was a Penn Station echo. Intrigued, I listened. And he schooled me. He had good reason to feel overwhelmed. Come to think of it, I feel that way myself half the time. The Niagara of information we have access to can drown us. How we keep up, sort through, choose, and prioritize can paralyze us. Instant access has changed...

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Verlag
PRH Christian Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0735289751
ISBN 13 
9780735289758
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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