The Practical Missions Podcast
Pod #98 Compassion Fatigue: What’s going on in your heart?
God meets you at your greatest point of need, at your lowest in life.
On today’s pod, we take a biblical look at Compassion Fatigue, one of the biggest issues that cross-cultural workers face daily. My guest helps us understand why we experience this kind of helping fatigue, and what we can do to drink deeply from the source of our compassion strength.
Timeline
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:00 Settling into Missions
- 03:34 The Need for Biblical Counseling
- 08:47 My Story of Compassion Fatigue
- 12:15 What is Compassion Fatigue?
- 15:49 What Happens When You Flip the Great Commandments?
- 18:50 How do I know if I’m loving my Neighbor before God?
- 24:45 Being Exhausted from Helping People
- 30:10 How Elijah Can Teach Us About Compassion Fatigue
- 41:04 Saints, Sinners, and Suffering
Listen on: Apple Podcast | Spotify
Don’t get lost in this identity of being a healer. That’s not your identity. Your identity is a saint in Christ. Keep coming back to that. Keep grounded in the Gospel. That gives you the capacity to love, and that gives you the capacity to care for others.
Pod #98 Compassion Fatigue: What’s going on in your heart?
God meets you at your greatest point of need, at your lowest in life.
On today’s pod, we take a biblical look at Compassion Fatigue, one of the biggest issues that cross-cultural workers face daily. My guest helps us understand why we experience this kind of helping fatigue, and what we can do to drink deeply from the source of our compassion strength.
Don’t get lost in this identity of being a healer. That’s not your identity. Your identity is a saint in Christ. Keep coming back to that. Keep grounded in the Gospel. That gives you the capacity to love, and that gives you the capacity to care for others.
Listen on: Apple Podcast | Spotify
Timeline
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:00 Settling into Missions
- 03:34 The Need for Biblical Counseling
- 08:47 My Story of Compassion Fatigue
- 12:15 What is Compassion Fatigue?
- 15:49 What Happens When You Flip the Great Commandments?
- 18:50 How do I know if I’m loving my Neighbor before God?
- 24:45 Being Exhausted from Helping People
- 30:10 How Elijah Can Teach Us About Compassion Fatigue
- 41:04 Saints, Sinners, and Suffering
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