Loneliness is bad for your health - and your Christian faith

Friendship is the most important of all human relationships, but we barely ever speak about it in Church. If we want to thrive as disciples, flourish as leaders and show the world around us what the Kingdom of God really looks like, we need a better understanding of what it means to be friends, says Phil Knox

Someone recently asked me what an evangelical was. My response was this: “We are good news people in a bad news world.” And my news feed is the bleakest it has been for most of my lifetime. We have lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis, the threat of world war three, the death of a monarch and political turmoil. The need for good news people has rarely been greater.

But we cannot do so alone…