Speaking the truth in love

Steve Midgley  |  Features  |  pastoral care
Date posted:  1 Mar 2016
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Speaking the truth in love

Blown about by every wind of teaching? | photo: iStock

‘Counselling’ is a good Bible word.

And it’s a perfectly good way of describing what happens in Christian ministry (see this column in January en). But this month let’s start in another place – with language that is even more explicitly biblical.

‘Speaking the truth in love’ is such a term. It’s a key component of ministry in Ephesians Chapter 4 – pretty much at the heart of it in fact – but are we clear what it is (and isn’t)?

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