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🗣️ Episode 2: The Silence Breaks - When Good Friends Give Bad Theology
After seven beautiful days of silent presence, Job's friends finally open their mouths—and immediately prove that sometimes the best thing you can do for someone in crisis is say absolutely nothing.
What follows is 29 chapters of spectacularly unhelpful advice that could be titled "How Not to Comfort Someone in Crisis." If you've ever had someone try to fix your suffering with Bible verses and tidy explanations, you're going to relate hard to this episode.
In this episode, we explore:
- Job's raw, honest lament—and why God's okay with our deepest questions
- Meet the original "fix-it" friends: Eliphaz (the mystic), Bildad (the traditionalist), and Zophar (the impatient one)
- How good theology can become terrible comfort when applied without wisdom
- Job's magnificent responses and his cry for a mediator
- Why "miserable comforters" cause more harm than help
The friends' formula was simple: Good people prosper, bad people suffer. Since Job is suffering, he must be bad. Case closed. But Job knows something they don't—he knows his own heart.
Sometimes the most damage is done not by enemies, but by well-meaning people who think they have God figured out. Learn what NOT to say to suffering people, and discover how to offer presence over explanations.
Next week: Meet young Elihu, who's been sitting there getting more frustrated by the minute!
After seven beautiful days of silent presence, Job's friends finally open their mouths—and immediately prove that sometimes the best thing you can do for someone in crisis is say absolutely nothing.
What follows is 29 chapters of spectacularly unhelpful advice that could be titled "How Not to Comfort Someone in Crisis." If you've ever had someone try to fix your suffering with Bible verses and tidy explanations, you're going to relate hard to this episode.
In this episode, we explore:
- Job's raw, honest lament—and why God's okay with our deepest questions
- Meet the original "fix-it" friends: Eliphaz (the mystic), Bildad (the traditionalist), and Zophar (the impatient one)
- How good theology can become terrible comfort when applied without wisdom
- Job's magnificent responses and his cry for a mediator
- Why "miserable comforters" cause more harm than help
The friends' formula was simple: Good people prosper, bad people suffer. Since Job is suffering, he must be bad. Case closed. But Job knows something they don't—he knows his own heart.
Sometimes the most damage is done not by enemies, but by well-meaning people who think they have God figured out. Learn what NOT to say to suffering people, and discover how to offer presence over explanations.
Next week: Meet young Elihu, who's been sitting there getting more frustrated by the minute!
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By Merilu Hill🗣️ Episode 2: The Silence Breaks - When Good Friends Give Bad Theology
After seven beautiful days of silent presence, Job's friends finally open their mouths—and immediately prove that sometimes the best thing you can do for someone in crisis is say absolutely nothing.
What follows is 29 chapters of spectacularly unhelpful advice that could be titled "How Not to Comfort Someone in Crisis." If you've ever had someone try to fix your suffering with Bible verses and tidy explanations, you're going to relate hard to this episode.
In this episode, we explore:
- Job's raw, honest lament—and why God's okay with our deepest questions
- Meet the original "fix-it" friends: Eliphaz (the mystic), Bildad (the traditionalist), and Zophar (the impatient one)
- How good theology can become terrible comfort when applied without wisdom
- Job's magnificent responses and his cry for a mediator
- Why "miserable comforters" cause more harm than help
The friends' formula was simple: Good people prosper, bad people suffer. Since Job is suffering, he must be bad. Case closed. But Job knows something they don't—he knows his own heart.
Sometimes the most damage is done not by enemies, but by well-meaning people who think they have God figured out. Learn what NOT to say to suffering people, and discover how to offer presence over explanations.
Next week: Meet young Elihu, who's been sitting there getting more frustrated by the minute!
After seven beautiful days of silent presence, Job's friends finally open their mouths—and immediately prove that sometimes the best thing you can do for someone in crisis is say absolutely nothing.
What follows is 29 chapters of spectacularly unhelpful advice that could be titled "How Not to Comfort Someone in Crisis." If you've ever had someone try to fix your suffering with Bible verses and tidy explanations, you're going to relate hard to this episode.
In this episode, we explore:
- Job's raw, honest lament—and why God's okay with our deepest questions
- Meet the original "fix-it" friends: Eliphaz (the mystic), Bildad (the traditionalist), and Zophar (the impatient one)
- How good theology can become terrible comfort when applied without wisdom
- Job's magnificent responses and his cry for a mediator
- Why "miserable comforters" cause more harm than help
The friends' formula was simple: Good people prosper, bad people suffer. Since Job is suffering, he must be bad. Case closed. But Job knows something they don't—he knows his own heart.
Sometimes the most damage is done not by enemies, but by well-meaning people who think they have God figured out. Learn what NOT to say to suffering people, and discover how to offer presence over explanations.
Next week: Meet young Elihu, who's been sitting there getting more frustrated by the minute!