Miserable Counselors (5)
Series: Storyline
Zach Terry
Job 16:2
CONTEXT: Last week we leaned into the text and we listened and learned from Job - a man loved by God, a man of whom God boasted. We saw three questions that Job asked God in the Midst of his suffering.
Today we are going to look at the text from a different angle. Job had three friends... although at times you wonder if they deserved the title of friend. The fact is, there is much we can learn from these three men about how NOT to comfort, and how NOT to counsel.
Probably, each one of us knows someone who is going a trial and we are in the place of the friend... let's learn how to counsel and comfort well.
TEXT: Job 2:11 (ESV)
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
JOKE - For many years it was believed that Zaccheaus was the shortest man in the bible. But then some scholars suggested it was Knee high miah. But the best scholarship tells us that it was in fact Bildad the Shoe Height. Someone raised a debate last week that it could have been Peter because he slept on his watch.
Most of the book of Job is taken up with the counsel given to Job by these three friends.
They did some things well:
1. They were there - The ministry of being there is one of the most important ministries in the church. Sometimes, just to show up is the best thing you can do.
ILLUSTRATION: When I first became Pastor of this church I was suddenly thrown into a situation that seminary doesn't prepare you for. A lady in our church was suffering inoperable brain cancer. She was a mom of 3 children. My first week on the job she was nearing the end. I went out to the house and really didn't know what to say. I sat there and talked to them, prayed with them... but in all honesty fel ...
Series: Storyline
Zach Terry
Job 16:2
CONTEXT: Last week we leaned into the text and we listened and learned from Job - a man loved by God, a man of whom God boasted. We saw three questions that Job asked God in the Midst of his suffering.
Today we are going to look at the text from a different angle. Job had three friends... although at times you wonder if they deserved the title of friend. The fact is, there is much we can learn from these three men about how NOT to comfort, and how NOT to counsel.
Probably, each one of us knows someone who is going a trial and we are in the place of the friend... let's learn how to counsel and comfort well.
TEXT: Job 2:11 (ESV)
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
JOKE - For many years it was believed that Zaccheaus was the shortest man in the bible. But then some scholars suggested it was Knee high miah. But the best scholarship tells us that it was in fact Bildad the Shoe Height. Someone raised a debate last week that it could have been Peter because he slept on his watch.
Most of the book of Job is taken up with the counsel given to Job by these three friends.
They did some things well:
1. They were there - The ministry of being there is one of the most important ministries in the church. Sometimes, just to show up is the best thing you can do.
ILLUSTRATION: When I first became Pastor of this church I was suddenly thrown into a situation that seminary doesn't prepare you for. A lady in our church was suffering inoperable brain cancer. She was a mom of 3 children. My first week on the job she was nearing the end. I went out to the house and really didn't know what to say. I sat there and talked to them, prayed with them... but in all honesty fel ...
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