Eric Holter, February 4th, 2006
“But encourage [exhort] one another day after day, as long as it is still called ‘Today,’ so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” Hebrews 3:13
A few years ago I took special notice that among the gifts listed in Romans 12:8 was the particular gift of exhortation – “he who exhorts, in his exhortation…” I had not really thought about exhortation as a distinct spiritual gifting before. I began to wonder what made a person an exhorter as opposed to a teacher, a prophet or an administrator for that matter. What precisely was exhortation, and how would one exercise exhortation according to his measure of faith – in obedience to the teaching of Romans 12:8? While I had some understanding of how the other gifts in this list functioned, I hadn’t considered how exhortation as a ministry would be actively and intentionally pursued.
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