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).
This is beautiful. I pray that God graft these marks of Christ’s goodness in me.