3 Vital Ways to Encourage Your Church Family
Three things that discourage your people:
1. Anxiety
Financial worries, exam worries, potential divorce, health problems…the list is endless. Many issues cause anxiety. Some anxiety exists for no apparent reason. One thing is certain, anxiety is discouraging.
2. Ambiguity
Ambiguity calls out the best in us, or it calls out the worst. We are constantly faced with decisions that are not clear cut. We are faced with grey decisions because everything is not black or white in decision making. Even after the decisions are made, many will second guess themselves.
Many marriages are broken because one of the partners is constantly haunted by the thought, “Did I make a mistake?”
3. Anger
There is a good reason why the Bible admonishes us to get rid of your anger before the sun goes down. It gets in your blood and causes resentment and bitterness. It is discouraging. It is the opposite of encouragement.
Three actions to encourage your people:
1. Paint a picture of hope
You have a picture of what could be and you expect it. That is hope. You have a picture of how things could be worked out or solved and you do your part in getting it to that point. This is encouragement at its finest.
2. Promote health in the church
Not just physical health. Spiritual health as well. Good health is an encouragement. A church that is healthy is comfortable to be in and inspiring to serve.
3. Lead from the heart
Nothing encourages like having your heart “really into” something that is significant. Serving Christ is a worthy cause. A pastor who can communicate this kind of worthy cause to the heart of a people can help people “want” to serve Him.
Brooks Faulkner is a Senior Pastoral Ministry Specialist for the Pastoral Ministries Department of LifeWay Church Resources.
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