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The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pastors spend much of their time counseling people in crisis—a delicate task that requires one to carefully evaluate each situation, share relevant principles from God’s Word, and offer practical suggestions for moving forward. Too often, however, pastors feel unprepared to effectively shepherd their people through difficult circumstances such as depression, adultery, eating disorders, and...

You would never trust an author who claimed to teach a fully developed method of preaching in one short chapter. We are not claiming to do so with counseling. But you do need to have some framework for directing a counseling conversation. We have done our best to boil it down to its most necessary elements so you can have a clear sense of what you’re doing. We laid out the three main goals of counseling: to address the problem, to display the relevance of
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