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Called into Crisis: The Nine Greatest Challenges of Pastoral Care is unavailable, but you can change that!

You know it’s coming. The call. The alarming call. Something is dreadfully wrong, and you’re called to do something to help. No time to hesitate. No time to hand off the responsibility to someone else. Time only to pray and go. And be God’s stand-in in time of crisis. Exactly when the ugliest, harshest blows fall, the call goes out for a pastor. Probably you. You’ve been there before. You know...

I didn’t see her again. She gave no forwarding address, and I didn’t know her real name. At the heart of any crisis, as I learned vividly those months, is someone who has lost control. One analogy is driving an automobile. Put us on a winding mountain road or a spaghetti-like interstate interchange, and we expect to be able to handle it. When a deer darts suddenly into the road, without thinking we swerve or put on the brakes. The vast majority of times our learned mechanisms
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