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If you’re like most pastors, you find counseling a sweet and sour experience. You’ve known the joy of unraveling a problem, of saving a marriage, of guiding a young life, of becoming bonded with your people. Yet you’ve also known the weariness and frustration of insoluble and complex and unremitting difficulties, of midnight emergencies, of failures, divorces, fights, and problems, problems,...

facets of their lives. If they say they can’t pray together, I suggest they talk about what they need and then pray silently in each other’s presence. I often use prayer as a homework assignment for the person who says, “I don’t feel close to God. I just can’t talk to him about this.” I want such people to discover that we act our way into a proper way of feeling; we don’t feel our way into a proper way of acting. • I pray to close the session. This serves as a summary statement in God’s presence,
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