A Word from Bob: 4 Guest Posts by Joe Hussung 

You’re reading Part 3 of a four-part blog mini-series by my friend and guest blogger, Joe Hussung. Here’s Joe’s bio.

Joe Hussung is the Director of Recruitment and Remote Counseling Coordinator at Fieldstone Counseling. He holds an MDiv in Christian Ministry and DMin in Biblical Counseling from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

To learn more about Joe, check out his longer bio at the Fieldstone Counseling site here.

To read Part 1, visit: Tilling the Ground.

To read Part 2, visit: Compassion: Divine Love for Sinners.

As regular readers of my blog, you know that I’ve written a great deal on Empathy. For a free 42-Page PDF that collates some of my thinking on empathy, see my Empathy Is Biblical PDF.

For a summary of my writings on empathy, along with links to a ten-part blog series on empathy, see my Empathy Is Biblical blog post.

I’m thankful for Joe’s insightful contribution to the important topic of biblical empathy in our lives and ministries.

Empathy as “Understanding” 

Alongside compassion (see: Compassion: Divine Love for Sinners), there is one other biblical category related to empathy that we should consider. I will


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