Grief, Transition, and Loss: A Pastor’s Practical Guide (Biblia.com)

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In this book written for counselors and pastors, Wayne Oates shares ideas from a lifetime of ministry on how to help people who have suffered loss—not only to death, but also to such life situations as separation, divorce, and job loss.

2 THE PASTOR: A PERSON OF SORROWS, ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF In earlier translations of Isaiah 53:3 (KJV and RSV), the Suffering Servant of Israel, a prototype for Christians of the Great Shepherd, Jesus the Christ, was described as “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” Pastors today are undershepherds of Jesus the Christ. Our task as pastors is to be, as he was, a person of sorrows acquainted with grief. This role defines our ministry to those suffering from grief and separation. To say that

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