Quotes about Support

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

When we fail to assist people responding to the gospel at church, we train our people to repeat that failure at home and at work.

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

The satanic strategy of using lies to disguise, divide, and destroy. Let's focus on the middle word of Satan's plan to defeat you. The word is divide and his strategy is to get a wedge between you and men who can support God's work in your life through loving mutual community. As always he does this through lies.

to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.