It is designed to advance Christ's kingdom by providing a fellowship in which churches of common confession may find mutual encouragement, assistance, edification, and counsel.

I looked up at the other two and we nodded mutual encouragement.

A well-run group will include laughter (a therapy in itself), introduce stimulating ideas and provide information, social contact and mutual encouragement.

The cohortative is used for mutual encouragement or discouragement.

In the years that followed, Tommy and I remained good friends, getting together every so often for conversation and mutual encouragement.

As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement.

There's been a lot of mutual encouragement along the way.

Energy: the celebration of its existence, and the mutual encouragement to go on generating it.

Ms. Lurie's book discusses how mutual encouragement from the couple kept her writing after she had been rejected by publishers.

But the scent of water lured them on, and soon their complaints turned to a murmur of mutual encouragement.