The Surprising Ministry of Encouragement

Encourage one another. (1 Thessalonians 5:11) Does encouragement seem to you a good, but small, thing? To me, it’s huge. I want to explain why I think this way, and I’d like to persuade you to join me. I have never met anyone suffering from too much encouragement in Christ. Have you? I think about the ministry of encouragement a lot, but not as much as I should. My friend Murray Harris, the New Testament scholar, said to me once, “Encouragement is one of the most import

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