Living Out Podcast Strengthening Friendships (Friendship #5)
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Mar 27, 2025 John Wyatt, a former medic and medical ethicist, chats about fostering healthy intergenerational friendships and reflects on his deep bond with John Stott. He highlights the importance of non-transactional support and offers insights on why older friends bring invaluable wisdom. The discussion dives into overcoming cultural suspicion of cross-generational ties and shares practical habits for strengthening friendships, emphasizing time, vulnerability, and balancing light-hearted banter with deeper conversations.
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Coffee Invitation That Began A Lifelong Bond
- John Wyatt describes being invited for coffee by John Stott as a medical student and how that grew into a decades-long friendship.
- The simple, non-programmatic invitation model shaped a mutual, caring relationship rather than a transactional mentorship.
Friendship Beats Transactional Mentoring
- Wyatt contrasts transactional mentoring with reciprocal friendship and warns mentoring can be hierarchical and time-limited.
- He highlights Stott's friendship as mutual, open, and not driven by a one-way training agenda.
Intergenerational Friendship As Time Travel
- Intergenerational friendships are a long-standing Christian practice illustrated by Jesus, Paul and Timothy.
- Such relationships act like 'time travel,' letting generations see the world through each other's eyes.
