
My Church loves the Hurting
1.A willingness to
Job 2:11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
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Genuine
Job 19:19 All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
Job 30:17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
Psalm 142:4 Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.
2.The goal of being
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Job 2:11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.
Isiah 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Good
3.A determination to enter into his
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“Weep with them that weep” (Rom. 12:15)
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Bear ye one another’s burdens Gal 6:2
For every man shall bear his own burden. Gal 6:5
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