A fresh, biblical look at relationshipsa topic of utmost importance in churches focused on making disciples and fostering continual spiritual growth. The authors show that God's plan is for us to be instruments in each other's lives to bring about the transformation He desires.

"Building Up One Another" focuses on significant actions that Christians are called to take toward one another to help build up the body of Christ. The author explores 12 specific "one another" Bible commands and gives practical steps for developing them. This new, updated version contains a personal and group study guide.

Imagine . . . an interconnected group of people who entrust themselves to each other. You can speak of your pain, and someone responds with compassion and prayer. You can speak of your joys, and someone rejoices with you. You can ask for help with sinful struggles, and someone prays with you. The goal of this book is that these meaningful relationships will become a natural part of daily life in your church. With short chapters and discussion questions meant to be read in a group setting, Ed Welch guides small groups through eight lessons that show what it looks like when ordinary, needy people care for other ordinary, needy people in everyday life.

and "No personal study in the New Testament has impacted my own life more than this one on mutual encouragement. and " So begins Gene Getz and ’s study of one of the most dominant themes in the New Testament: encouraging one another. And as the Book of Acts and the Epistles show, it is basic not only to the process of starting churches but to building them toward maturity. Gene Getz wrote Encouraging One Another as part of his well-known and "One Another Series and " back in 1981, and now he has updated this classic for a new generation of readers. Also, this new edition includes a personal and group study. Join Dr. Getz in a dynamic journey toward becoming a better encourager. It and ’s a lifelong adventure that will help you grow spiritually, as well as build the body of Christ.

Love one another. It's one of the greatest, simplest and most difficult commands Jesus gave. And when it comes to the church, sometimes it seems impossible. How can we achieve unity within the diversity of the body of Christ? Gerald Sittser examines the "one another" statements throughout the New Testament to distill much-needed biblical wisdom for loving each other even in the midst of controversies and stalemates. Speaking from his own pastoral experience with the best and worst of church life, Sittser helps us understand more fully what the love Jesus commanded actually requires and shows us how to live it out—through struggle, servanthood, compromise and sacrifice.

This paradigm-shifting book helps believers understand the process of being transformed by God's grace and truth, and challenges them to be a part of the process of discipleship in the lives of their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Counseling One Another biblically presents and defends every believer's responsibility to work toward God's goal of conforming us to the image of His Son-a goal reached through the targeted form of intensive discipleship most often referred to as counseling. All Christians will find Counseling One Another useful as they make progress in the life of sanctification and as they discuss issues with their friends, children, spouses, and fellow believers, providing them with a biblical framework for life and one-another ministry in the body of Christ.