Exhort, comfort, and charge

Today's reading from I Thessalonians summarizes nicely what I am trying to do.

"...we exhorted and comforted and charged everyone of you, as a father doth his children." (1 Thessalonians 2:11)

Exhort, comfort, and charge.   Exhort - to give advice; to urge strongly; even to warn.  Comfort - to point the way to rest and assurance, the way to a yoke that is well fitting and easy to bear.  Charge - to assign tasks, to instruct and convey responsibility, to provide direction.