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"Let's see if there might be people that will be willing to donate just a few more pigs," Eyaka told Yanis.

Yanis was shaken and hurt.

He had finally found a young woman who trusted in Jesus in the same way he did. But when he asked to marry Unai, her father scowled and said, “No way. It’s going to take more than these 28 pigs to marry Unai.”

Her father’s words cut him deeply and shattered his dream. And that’s when his friend Eyaka encouraged him.

“I’ll help,” Eyaka said. “Let’s go to every village. Let’s visit every relative, even the distant family you haven’t seen in years. Let’s see if there might be people that will be willing to donate just a few more pigs. You’re almost there. Don’t give up now.”

Eyaka, full of energy and with a ready laugh, was the first Hewa to trust in Christ a few years earlier and helped the missionaries translate verses and lessons in preparation for teaching the Bible in his village.

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One of the reasons we don’t really understand what the Bible means when it says, “Encourage one another,” is that there are not precise translations for the two words the Bible uses for encourage.

That’s why those words are translated also as comfort, exhort and help.

So let’s delve into these words a bit more and see if we can summarize what they mean, so we can get a better idea what the Bible mean.

Parakaleo is (more…)