We will look at some examples of how churches sometimes helped and sometimes failed to help people during their crisis. The purpose is not to point out others’ failures, but to remind us of the simple idea of the importance of being there when people are hurting. Job shows an example of how his friends helped him when they sat with him, but failed because they tried to find a meaning behind the loss. Churches who are there for the hurting have fewer people fall away and more people won to Christ.