A friend is falling apart: sick, grieving, or so low they say they wish they had never been born. What do you say? Most Christians reach for a cliché, and most clichés make it worse.
Job's three friends did that. God recorded 35 chapters of their conversation, and He was not impressed. They are remembered as "Job's comforters." What miserable comforters they were! God wants us to be better friends than that.
In this second session on Job, Pastor Steve Cioccolanti takes the human side of the story: what Job got wrong, what his friends got wrong, and what God looks for from you when someone you love is in the pit.
Can a believer complain? (David did, all through the Psalms.) Was Job really a man of faith, and why is he missing from Hebrews 11? Does God Himself have needs, and why does it matter?
"We don't rebuke you for complaining. We rebuke you for not changing it."
If you've ever said the wrong thing to a hurting friend, this teaching is for you. Watch it before your next hard conversation.
