{"id":84599,"date":"2025-02-15T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=84599"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:39:38","slug":"they-wish-you-would-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/they-wish-you-would-help\/","title":{"rendered":"They Wish You Would Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Floyd Chappalear
\nvia Sentry Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 4, December 31, 1987\n

\"\"“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all<\/em>” (I Thessalonians 5:14). In so doing, the church of our Lord is the finest “support group” on the face of the earth!<\/p>\n

Perhaps you know someone who is agonizing through one crisis after another. Such a one may even despair of life. What he\/she doesn’t need is another critic telling him\/her to “straighten up” or be in great danger of Hellfire. Such a one needs comfort, help, and assistance of some kind. Take such a one in your arms and give the uplift so desperately needed. Take up his\/her cross and help that it might be borne through life’s difficulties. Remember this: when someone says they wish they were dead, they are really saying, “I wish you would help!”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Floyd Chappalear via Sentry Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 4, December 31, 1987 “Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all” (I Thessalonians 5:14). In so doing, the church of our Lord is the finest “support group” on the face of the earth!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[359,398,182,39],"class_list":["post-84599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-comfort","tag-despair","tag-suffering","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55600,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/comfort-for-the-depressed\/","url_meta":{"origin":84599,"position":0},"title":"Comfort for the Depressed","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Johnny Felker In II Corinthians 1, Paul discusses what must have been one of the lowest points in his life, a time filled with deep feelings of anxiety and despair. 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