I'd Like You More If You Were More Like Me
by John Ortberg
Intimacy with God and people: the bids, the barriers, the fear of being known, and the practice of vulnerability. Ortberg applies Gottman and Scripture together.
Read it if…
you want a Christian book on intimacy that uses relationship research.
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Skip it if…
you want pure theology.
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Three things you will actually use
- Intimacy is shared experience.
- Bids accepted build closeness.
- Being known is the risk and the reward.
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Read the chapter on bids.
Our verdict
Intimacy, with research.
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