Pondering with Purpose

Hey there! It’s been a whole month of blogging.  In that month I have had multiple sources recommend me to Substack which offers a cleaner and simpler design for a blog.  I checked them out and they had all of the functionality that I wanted and that was lacking here on Blogspot. So I’m switching over.   Click here to jump over there and keep following along.

  Quote:   Gospel care is the God exalting, grace saturated art of loving another person, through patiently knowing, sacrificially serving, truthfully speaking, and consistently applying the gospel in order to help them become more like Jesus - Scott Mehl All first year bachelor students at EBC are required to take a class called Introduction to Discipleship Counseling.  My first semester, this course was taught by an older couple so I held off for the Spring when unbeknownst to me the course was going to be revamped.  It was going to be revamped by Scott Mehl.  Scott is a pastor at Cornerstone West LA and is a certified counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and an adjunct faculty member at EBC.  So in my second semester of school I got to sit under the teaching of Scott Mehl. As part of the course, we read his book “Loving Messy People”.  This quote served as the thesis of not only the book but also the course as a whole....