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Encouragement: The Key to Caring is unavailable, but you can change that!

Encouragement. It's more than a compliment or a pat on the back. According to Drs. Larry Crabb and Dan Allender, it is the most basic form of counseling -- a skill that can be mastered by laypeople as well as counselors. What must we know in order to fulfill the biblical exhortation to 'encourage one another'? Encouragement: The Key to Caring tells you. Part one deals with understanding...

convey a message that if my friend wanted to provide encouragement, 1 was eager and open to receiving it. The point can be summarized in a phrase: encouragers must develop the skill of listening beneath words. Words often communicate not only an open, visible message but also a subtle, hidden message. And hidden messages need to be heard. Still, an important caution is in order: not every sentence is communicating a disguised need. There is nothing less encouraging than a would-be encourager stalking