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Counsel Your Flock: Fulfilling Your Role as a Teaching Shepherd is unavailable, but you can change that!

“One of the surest signs of the blessing of God upon His people is the gift of spiritual shepherds who faithfully care for His flock,” writes Paul Tautges. Sadly, pastors today have become business professionals who are no longer content to shepherd their flocks by teaching the Word of God and caring for their souls, but instead farm their people out to psychological counselors, who are incapable...

thoroughly defended in my companion book, Counsel One Another,3 which presents a complete picture of the role that every believer has in the work of making disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the focus of this smaller volume is on the key part that we as pastors have in the discipleship process, primarily by means of our role as teaching shepherds who lead the lambs of God toward maturity in Jesus Christ by means of the personal ministry of counseling and the public ministry of preaching.
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