Description: Divine ability to feel genuine empathy for pain, suffering, or debilitations and minister to them appropriately.
Purpose:
- To comfort the suffering people within the fellowship and to help bring them to full recovery.
Focus:
- People oriented
- The grieving and hurting people
Results:
- People healed and brought to full recovery and fellowship
Attributes:
- Cheerfulness (Rom. 12:8)
- Empathetic
- Gentle
Blindsides:
- Merciful to those who really need correction
- Can be easily hurt themselves, because of emotional relationships
Example:
- Mother Teresa
Possible Ministries:
- Meals for hurting
- Hospital visitations
- Missionary to the Urban Poor