Edward T. Welch - Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

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The task of counseling is the task of loving others well. This book will help you to know what the love of Christ looks like, how to extend it to others, and how to accept it from others as you live in relationship together.

Heath Lambert, Executive Director, Association of Certified Biblical Counselors; Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; author, The Biblical Counseling Movement after Adams

There are two things that Welchs book does very well. It demonstrates that no one gives grace better than a person who is convinced he needs it himself and that God makes his invisible grace visible by sending ordinary people to give extraordinary grace to people who need it. Welch not only reminds us all of our call to friendship ministry but also unpacks for us what it looks like. Every Christian should read this book!

Paul David Tripp, President, Paul Tripp Ministries; author, What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

Welch builds a vision of a Christian community that moves beyond platitudes and empty promises to deep, scriptural, Christlike relationships. You will find this book to be a helpful primer on how to ask for and provide help in the midst of an age of separation.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, counselor; speaker; author, Found in Him

Finally! Ive been wanting a book that helps normal, everyday Christians know how to help friends who are struggling. Ed Welch has given us this in his short, well-written, biblically sound, and Christ-exalting book. Im planning to buy a bunch of copies and give it out to our church members.

Deepak Reju, Pastor of Biblical Counseling and Family Ministry, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC; author, The Pastor and Counseling

Ed Welch calls us back to the biblical model of one-another care with user-friendly wisdom that neither overcomplicates nor oversimplifies what it means to be a biblical encourager. I highly recommend Side by Side for every believer, every small group, and every church committed to being equipped to encourage one another in Christ.

Robert W. Kellemen, Vice President, Institutional Development; Chair, Biblical Counseling Department, Crossroads Bible College; author, Gospel-Centered Counseling

Side by Side is a simple, insightful, and practical guide to walking with people through times of trouble. This book will help churches to become communities of honesty and healing. You should read itothers will benefit, and so will you.

Ian Smith, Principal, Christ College, Sydney

Side by Side is a very practical and thoroughly biblical guide meant as much for the average church member as for pastors and caregivers. Ed demolishes the myth that counseling can be done only by the professionally qualified. I wish this book had been written long ago.

John K. John, Executive Director, Biblical Counseling Trust of India

This book of practical spirituality will produce many more helpless Christians, but also many more helpful Christians. It made me feel both more needy and more needed. A rare double blessing!

David P. Murray, Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Side by Side is an expertly executed physical-therapy treatment for the disabled body of Christ. With biblical precision and practical compassion, Welch assists the attentive and teachable to work spiritual muscles left unused by many. Finally, someone has offered the people of God a ministry tool for mutual burden bearing and spiritual body building.

Joseph V. Novenson, Pastor, Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Ed Welch skillfully provokes and counsels Christians on how to relate better with others by recognizing they are needy and needed. He puts his arms around church members who want to be more than spectators, around friends who want to grow in wise love for one another, and around parents who want to be more effective with their children. I wish I could have read this book as a young personlife would have been much richer both for others and for me.

Bruce K. Waltke, Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies, Regent College

Side by Side simply made my ministry approach and the necessary in-reach method more pertinent to successful personal outreach and up-close-and-personal discipleship.

Dallas H. Wilson Jr., Vicar, St. Johns Chapel, Charleston, South Carolina

We are needy people who share the same nature with many others in need of help. Gods grace does not make us self-sufficient but enables us to help others. Welch develops this principle beautifully in this book. Side by Side is not only a book for individual profit but one to be used as an instrument for the growth of the church and the equipping of Gods people.

Valdeci Santos, Vice-President and Professor of Biblical Counseling and Missions, Andrew Jumper Graduate Center, Brazil

Side by Side is a practical book about us needing others and others needing us. It pushes us to go further in our relationships and offers concrete ways to do that. It is a book about being companions and allies in Christian living. It is a book, finally, about being good Christian friends. Id love every member of our church to read itwe would be a stronger community as a result.

Steve Midgley, Executive Director, Biblical Counselling UK; Senior Minister, Christ Church, Cambridge

Side by Side

Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

Edward T. Welch

Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

Copyright 2015 by Edward T. Welch

Published by Crossway
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First printing 2015

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Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-4711-9
ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-4714-0
PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-4712-6
Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-4713-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Welch, Edward T., 1953

Side by side : walking with others in wisdom and love / Edward T. Welch.

1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.