We all love to be encouraged, don't we? So how wonderful it must be to be regarded as an 'encourager', a positive and uplifting person. Barnabas - Paul's right-hand man - was just such a person, so much so that he was known by his nickname 'Son of Encouragement', in other words, he was the very embodiment of encouragement. As Martin Powell emphasises in this talk, our church will only grow if we continue meeting together and encouraging one another (as Paul instructs in several of his letters); so there's a challenge - who can you encourage today?