Dan Chrystal

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Sounds simple, right?Our technology-flooded environment has created a generation of people with limited relational experience and a fear of face-to-face connection. Meeting new people and forming deep, personal bonds has become challenging, to say the least. Yet at the heart of every man, woman, and child is the need for relationships with people who love them for who they are. Discussions for Better Relationships is a study guide based on Dan Chrystal's The Lost Art of Relationship, designed specifically for people who want to know how to have better friendships and how to relate to the people in their lives. This 8-week discussion guide walks through eight essential relationship art forms: The Art of ForgivenessThe Art of EncouragementThe Art of VulnerabilityThe Art of UnityThe Art of HumilityThe Art of FriendshipThe Art of CommunityThe Art of the QuestionEach week includes discussion questions, Scriptures, application challenges, and guided prayer. The discussions themselves will challenge, instruct, and develop these all-important relational aspects. Group members may benefit from having a copy of The Lost Art of Relationship but it is not required.Now churches, friends, and families can focus on developing healthy relationships by talking about these essentials and putting them into practice at the most foundational level. Soon you'll experience relationships like never before and see what loving your neighbor as yourself really looks like. Isn't that what we all want?

Relationships are beautiful messes.Relationship is a journey of discovery--a lost art. In this generation, it has become challenging to deepen and grow personal relationships with each other. Our technology-flooded environment has left many with limited relational experience and a fear of face-to-face connection and meeting new people.The church has done a decent job of helping people understand the need and importance of a relationship with God, but what about with each other? At the heart of every man, woman, and child is the need for connection--for relationships with people who love them for who they are.In The Lost Art of Relationship, Dan Chrystal tackles the heart of relationship based on the time-honored instruction to "love your neighbor as you love yourself." But what does that mean? How do we live out this odd instruction? Who is my neighbor, anyway? What makes relationships healthy, and what makes them fail? Through Dan's personal stories and difficult life lessons, readers will come away encouraged, inspired, and motivated to love the people in their life more fully. If you desire deep and meaningful connections, now is the time to discover the lost art of relationship. "This book will make you laugh and cry. It will make you look at things in a fresh new way. And it will definitely make you uncomfortable. ...ultimately, Dan calls us to live, love, and lead like the Jesus we claim to follow."--Ray Johnston, author of The Hope Quotient and founding and lead pastor at Bayside Church, Roseville, California"The Lost Art of Relationship is like a roadmap to finding, building, and treasuring friendships....never before have people seemed so adrift of meaningful, face-to-face relationships. If you are someone who longs for deeper connections, then Dan's book was written for you "--Chris Bueno, Chief Executive Officer of Ocean Avenue Entertainment"Dan has the gift of risk-taking in seeking out and building relationships. If you want a quick fix to relationships, don't read this book. But, if you want to learn how to build life-long, meaningful friendships, then this book might be for you."--Dr. Sam Huddleston, Assistant Superintendent Assemblies of God, Northern California District, and author of Five Years to Life