Transformative Friendships

Transformative Friendships shares seven simple questions that will help you be intentional with your relationships and offers a springboard to deepening and strengthening friendships that will enrich your life.

Building meaningful friendships is not as easy as we wish it was. A culture that is lonelier and more disconnected than ever proves how hard it can be. In Transformative Friendships, counselor Brad Hambrick encourages readers to develop new rhythms, habits, and lifestyles that will shape and grow their relationships, both with casual acquaintances and closer friends.

The goal is not to develop perfect friendships, but rather learn to how to cultivate deep connections that grow steadily over time through conversations based on simple questions and common interactions. Hambrick’s biblical vision for friendship calls Christians to engage with one another in the transformational way God intended.

1. Opening Credits
2. Introduction: Simple Yet Powerful
3. Question 1: What’s Your Story?
4. Chapter 1: What’s Your Story? | The Facts
5. Chapter 2: What’s Your Story? | The Major Themes
6. Chapter 3: What’s Your Story? | The Plot Twists
7. Chapter 4: What’s Your Story? | The Life-Shaping Events
8. Chapter 5: What’s Your Story? | The Point of Your Story
9. Summative Exercise 1: A Middle-School-Level Book Review
10. Question 2: What’s Good?
11. Chapter 6: What’s Good? | Your Talents
12. Chapter 7: What’s Good? | Your Quirks
13. Chapter 8: What’s Good? | Your Roles
14. Chapter 9: What’s Good? | Your Sacrifices
15. Chapter 10: What’s Good? | Your Character .
16. Summative Exercise 2: Spontaneous, Specific Affirmations
17. Question 3: What’s Hard?
18. Chapter 11: What’s Hard? | The Flip Side of Your Strengths
19. Chapter 12: What’s Hard? | Your Current Life Challenges
20. Chapter 13: What’s Hard? | The Fall around You
21. Chapter 14: What’s Hard? | The Fall within You
22. Chapter 15: What’s Hard? | What You’ve Never Told Anyone
23. Summative Exercise 3: Sharing My Unpolished Story
24. Question 4: What’s Bad?
25. Chapter 16: What’s Bad? | Your Respectable Sins
26. Chapter 17: What’s Bad? | Your Most Prevalent Idols
27. Chapter 18: What’s Bad? | Your Go-To Escapes
28. Chapter 19: What’s Bad? | Your Code-Orange Sins
29. Chapter 20: What’s Bad? | Most Likely to Shipwreck Your Life
30. Summative Exercise 4: “Not That Bad” Phone Calls
31. Question 5: What’s Fun?
32. Chapter 21: What’s Fun? | What Brings You Joy
33. Chapter 22: What’s Fun? | Why You Enjoy These Things
34. Chapter 23: What’s Fun? | Can I Try It Too?
35. Chapter 24: What’s Fun? | Sacrificing for Your Joys
36. Chapter 25: What’s Fun? | I Feel Your Joys
37. Summative Exercise 5: Skillfully Blessing Someone with Their Joys
38. Question 6: What’s Stuck?
39. Chapter 26: What’s Stuck? | When Your Ruts Were Life-Giving
40. Chapter 27: What’s Stuck? | When the Color Began to Fade
41. Chapter 28: What’s Stuck? | When Guilt and Duty Took Over
42. Chapter 29: What’s Stuck? | How You’re Stuck in Stubbornness
43. Chapter 30: What’s Stuck? | How You’re Stuck in Shame
44. Summative Exercise 6: Habit-by-Habit Heat Check
45. Question 7: What’s Next?
46. Chapter 31: What’s Next? | The Dreams That Got You Here
47. Chapter 32: What’s Next? | The Dream You’re Working On
48. Chapter 33: What’s Next? | The Dream That’s Fading
49. Chapter 34: What’s Next? | The Dream for the Next Season of Life
50. Chapter 35: What’s Next? | The Dream You Are Afraid to Say
51. Summative Exercise 7: Praying for Your Friend’s Dreams Like Your Own
52. Closing Thoughts
53. Appendix: New Testament One-Another Passages
54. Closing Credits