Pastoral

could one give pastoral counseling without the experience of spiritual formation and the implementation of prayer and faith? In order to understand the importance of pastoral counseling, one might need to know what elements are to be included. There are several types of counseling and psychological methods and remedies concerning various issues and conflicts. However, one might conclude to understand that pastoral counseling serves in an arena all by itself. When it comes to pastoral counseling,…

Part A 1. Before studying pastoral preaching I thought that pastoral care and preaching were mutually exclusive. I believed that pastoral care was concerned about meeting the needs of the people by shepherding them. This entailed visitations, be it at homes or hospitals, funerals, weddings, and doing things that are expected from a pastor. I believed the preaching was for the edification of the saints. The preaching is a herald of God’s word. The preacher spent a majority of his time in…

In Pastoral Practices, Mark Maddix and Diane Leclerc bring together an invaluable collection of essays composed by some of the most outstanding pastoral and theological perspectives in the Wesleyan tradition. With each essay covering a different aspect of the pastoral ministry, Pastoral Practices helps create a more wholistic understanding of the complexity of the demands of the pastoral office. Wesleyan theology offers a rich foundation upon which pastors can shape their pastoral practices…

hands and feet of the savior and are called to help those in need and hurting. PASTORAL EXPERIENCE At this present time, I have no experience in pastoral counseling. The church that I am in covenant with has a counseling center in which our senior pastor appoints minsters to serve our church counseling center. Our church has a Leadership Training Center…

character, Huck Finn. For Huck to become an individual he had to escape from society to nature or the pastoral. The pastoral setting is often depicted on pasture with sheep, a shepherd, and serenity, but the pastoral setting, in this novel, is instead portrayed as that natural, but the turmoil of the Mississippi River. Yes, the image of the Mississippi River contradicts with the original image of the pastoral, but it is a useful component of the novel in providing Huck and Jim a way of escape…

Before the second millennium, pastoral nomads and settled people had very little contact. They would trade goods that the other society did not possess. Eventually, the pastoralists came to the conclusions that living a settled life was more beneficial. Being in a settled area was better for organized government and growing crops. Pastoral nomads invaded the city-states around them and eventually took over. Now, there are primary sources historians can use to discover what was life like when all…

Pastoral care is an art form of ministry, God’s love and care, offered to communities, humanity, as well as one self. This type of ministry takes scripture, theology, and personal experience and graph them together to create a firm foundation in which transforming care can transpire. Throughout the course of pastoral care, author Deborah Hunsinger, Theresa Latini and Margaret Kornfeld have presented some very vital information pertaining to becoming effective in pastoral care. In this paper, I…

Pastoral Formation Learning Goal-To learn the difference between Chaplain/Pastor’s response to different faith beliefs or disbeliefs than that of Protestant Christians. Addressed this Goal- Within the first goal I have learned that the Catholic patients use the Lord’s prayer for comfort. The difference here is that within my Protestant faith we recite the whole prayer without stopping and the Catholic community stops after “… deliver us from evil” then after another section goes on to, “Thine…

A couple of days ago I was in my parish and I was asked about the Church’s position regarding the Middle East conflict and the persecutions to the Christians in Syria. Later that week, another person asked me about the ObamaCare law. And this past Sunday, a student from the religious education program told me that he doesn’t believe that God exist, because there is a lot of evil in the world. It is not easy to understand where God is when we see a lot of injustices, crimes, and evil in the…

The Paul model for pastoral leadership has been lost in today culture, today our pastors are measured on how well he can organize, build big buildings and manage the congregates. Congregation want pastor to be ready available at their every beck and call but do not tell them how to live a sacrificially or live in community as the early church did. In the book of Act’s Paul writes, And all who believed were together and had all things in common.45 And they were selling their possessions and…