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Getting Real About Getting Close
We want people in our lives we can trust, confide in, and turn to when life gets tough—people who not only appreciate our gifts but are also fully aware of our flaws and failures, and want to be with us anyway.
The good news is that a deeper, more meaningful relationship with your friends, kids, coworkers, spouse —even God—is not only attainable, it’s what you were made for!
In I’d Like You More if You Were More like Me, best-selling author John Ortberg shows us how to overcome obstacles and create the kind of deep, meaningful relationships we all crave—with God and with others. You’ll learn
- How to recognize and respond to bids for connection
- How to get past your fear of intimacy
- How to sidestep common relationship pitfalls
- How to make God an active part of your everyday life
Whether you’re a man or a woman; whether you’re the life of the party or a wallflower; whether you’re a thinker or a feeler or a category not yet known to social science, you were made for connection.
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Church Connection Kit
This complete kit includes a Member Connect Guide, a Leader Connect Guide, a copy of the trade book I’d Like You More if You Were More like Me, and an access card to downloadable video sessions with stories and encouragement from John Ortberg. Church leaders also receive exclusive access to bonus online content such as videos, sermon outlines, presentation templates, editable evites to use for special events, and more!
Member Connect Guide
Small-group members will learn how to connect on a deeper level with the people God has placed in their lives, both inside and outside the group, as they grow closer to the One who made them for relationships.
Small Group Connection Kit
The Small Group Connection Kit contains a Member Connect Guide, a Leader Connect Guide, an access code to stream all six video sessions, and ideas on using technology for the benefit of building deeper relationships. It also offers digital resources such as recipes, icebreakers, and inspiring images and quotes to post on social media.
Recipes
Inspiration
Invitations
Icebreakers
About John Ortberg
John Ortberg is an author, speaker, and the senior pastor of Menlo Church in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his teaching centers around how faith in Christ can impact our everyday lives with God. John has written books on spiritual formation including, The Life You’ve Always Wanted, Who Is This Man?, The Me I Want to Be, Soul Keeping; and most recently, All the Places To Go.
Born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, John graduated from Wheaton College and holds a Master of Divinity and a PhD in clinical psychology from Fuller Seminary. John is a member of the Board of Trustees at Fuller Seminary, serves on the board for the Dallas Willard Center for Spiritual Formation, and is a former board member of Christianity Today International.
John and his wife Nancy live in the Bay Area and have three grown children.
