Helping a believer in mental anguish: bear burdens without requiring performance; listen and meet needs without trying to fix them
Responding to how to help and encourage a believer going through a season of mental anguish
Mike encourages removing the sense of responsibility to fix the person. Help and encouragement that requires no response or performance from the sufferer is healthy. Proverbs teaches that only a person's heart knows its own sorrow. Galatians 6:2 — bear one another's burdens. Practical suggestions: just listen, spend time without discussing the issues, identify and meet needs. Encourage with Scripture that uplifts without adding burdens or expectations.
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What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Leaders in the New Testament (PART B)
Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 4 on women leaders in the New Testament (Part B)
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@Shakespreacher @Protestia But the Bible does not restrict a qualified and gifted woman from preaching true doctrine or overseeing, teaching or pastoral care. The Bible does not support men from teac
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1 Timothy 2:11-15
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