“...my Master, you must know, is one
of very tender bowels, especially to them that are afraid;
wherefore he carried it so towards him as might tend most to his encouragement.”
- Great-heart, speaking of Interpreter, in “Pilgrim’s Progress” (Book 2, Stage
6) by John Bunyan (1628-1688)
17th
century language aside, this is a great reminder to pastor-teachers. May we be
more like the Interpreter.
“But we proved to be gentle among
you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. Having so fond an
affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of
God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us...you are
witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved
toward you believers; just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging
and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, so that you
would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and
glory” (1
Thessalonians 2:7,8,10-12).
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