A Brick in the Valley » Shepherding http://www.chrisbrauns.com The Web Site and Blog of Pastor Chris Brauns Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Essential qualities to display when caring for others in Christian love http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2009/10/26/essential-qualities-to-display-caring-for-others-in-christian-love/ http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2009/10/26/essential-qualities-to-display-caring-for-others-in-christian-love/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:30:00 +0000 Chris http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2009/10/26/essential-qualities-to-display-caring-for-others-in-christian-love/ This week you will likely relate to someone who is hurting in one way or another.  Below, Dave Powlison recalls qualities he observed in John Frame – - and certainly qualities we should display.

I arrived at WTS having been a believer for less than a year.  [John Frame]was a model to a neophyte Christian.  His manner bore the mark of Christ’s goodness to him—good cheer, humility, kindness, curiosity, pervading confidence in the truth, the essential optimism of a man with a living hope.  No surprise, the embodiment of those same graces is of essential significance in doing pastoral care.  (Page 762 of Speaking the Truth in Love).

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