The Best of Friends: Choose Wisely, Care Well

by Phil Knox

Publisher:

IVP

, 2023

Overview

Friendship is one of the best things ever created.

It is unparalleled as a building block of society, a universal theme in great literature and film, and has a huge impact on our mental health, wellbeing and happiness. But many of us are lonely or feel suffocated by the pressures of life and quantity of relationships we have to maintain. Now, more than ever, we need better, deeper friendships. We need the best of friends.

Full of practical advice, humour and wisdom, Phil Knox shows us how to choose our friends wisely and maintain lasting and meaningful relationships.

Key Features

• Shows us how to choose our friends wisely.
• Explains how to maintain lasting and meaningful relationships.
• Explores how to have deeper friendships.

Contents

Foreword xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Enterlude xviii

Introduction 1

1 The power of friendship 7

2 The pressure on friendship 19

3 Circles of friends 34

4 One - Jesus had a best friend 45

5 Three - Jesus had an inner circle 70

6 Twelve - Jesus had a huddle 89

7 Seventy-two - Jesus had a network 107

8 Add a zero - Jesus had a following 130

9 x (multiply) - Moses had a mentor . . . and an apprentice 145

10 + (add) - Moses had a God 160

Conclusion 171

Afterword 175

Notes 177

Product Details

• Title: The Best of Friends: Choose Wisely, Care Well
• Author: Phil Knox
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781789744255, 9781789744248, 1789744245, 1789744253
• Resource ID: LLS:9781789744255
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-16T23:49:30Z

About Phil Knox

Phil Knox, is an evangelist, speaker and missiologist at the Evangelical Alliance. He is passionate about making Jesus known and seeing communities thrive. He loves learning and has degrees in law and mission and evangelism. Phil is married to Dani and they have two sons, Caleb and Jos. He is an avid runner, enthusiastic waterskier and once broke the world record for the longest five-a-side football match. He is also a performance poet and author of Story Bearer. The Best of Friends is his second book.