{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Have we forgotten about friendship?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2773,"description":"Most churches have got the small group and the Sunday service figured out. But there's a whole layer of community that's gone missing,  and it might be why people keep saying \"I don't feel like I belong here.\"\nJoel, Stu and Tim dig into Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology of friendship as an ecclesial category, and why his concentric circles of relationship,  drawn straight from Jesus' own relational model, give churches a practical framework for building community that's expansive instead of cliquey. \nThey also pull in Robin Dunbar's research on the cognitive limits of human relationship, and land somewhere surprising: biology and theology are telling the same story.\nPlus: e-bikes, convicts, the Industrial Revolution, and why teenagers might actually be ahead of the church on this one.\nTimestamps\n05:11 Friendship as an ecclesial category\n13:14 The 3, the 12, the 72, the 120\n19:24 Jesus saves us into community\n24:03 Cultural differences and individualism influencing friendship\n34:09 The Dunbar number and what friendship brings\n43:17 Tim's takeaway - How would your relationships at church change if you saw them as friends?\nDiscussed on this episode\nThe Lesser of Two Weevils - Master and Commander\nWhen Church Was a Family, by Joesph Hellerman\nDunbar's Number\n\nSubscribe, leave a review, and send your thoughts to Joel at joel@shockabsorber.com.au","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}