Loving People: How to Love and Be Loved

This is a great book and very challenging for my faith to live out as a follower of Jesus. There is great Biblical wisdom and practical steps in this book that are worth applying.If you want to be challenged in your faith and how to love people like Jesus, then get this book, read it and apply the principles.

Crapp. The second season of life, of saying yes to the good things, following the boundaries book which was saying no to the wrong things. If we only knew how to genuinely love people better!! Love God, love people, so the motto has been .. a slowwww incrediblyyyy slowwww rewardinggg beautifull humbling journey tis. Exploration, growth, discomfort, more stretching to be continued. Gahhflrjflx..

This is a book I have always wanted to write. Dr. Townsend did it way better than I would have done. Because the most common command in the New Testament is, "Love one another, this should be the number one reading requirement for every Christian, after the Bible. This book gives all the nuts and bolts of how to love one another in a Biblical way.

Loved this book. I also love to read and listen to Dr. John Townsend. He is so good and so reasonable, and open to talk with anyone about anything with realistic conversations and things when necessary to do to make your life better.

Henry Cloud and John Townsend's books (e.g. Boundaries) are usually loaded with gold. This one, by Townsend alone, is no exception. As in their other books, here he reveal issues from angles I had never seen them from before, and he does it with such clarity I am truly grateful.The book is overflowing with illuminating insights about what works and doesn't work in our interactions with those we purport to love.P. 30: "Love is at its best, and you are at your best, when you care about people who are not very lovable. ...Unlovable people, like all people, need to be sought, not tolerated. ...No one deserves love, but everyone needs love."Pages 51-55 alone are worth the price of admission. "Connecting People are Connected People." Townsend shows how Kyle grows when he learns something new that he didn't learn at home: how to connect emotionally by getting his partner to share with him what she is feeling. Kyle learned to experience the world through her eyes--and her heart.Highly recommended.

Worth the read. Got bogged down in ch 3 with the extended discussion of relationship needs and mechanics. But rest of book was interesting and insightful. For example, he talked about maintaining friends: his, hers and theirs. He presents a practical, healthy approach to relationships inside and outside of marriage.

Easy and practical advice that everyone can benefit from. I like John Townsend's writing style. I gobbled this bookbup and am ready to implement what I learned!

Great and and full of practical advice for those who care about ministering to those who are around us.

still reading it but its what i am looking for especially in my healing process