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The Pastor as Counselor: The Call for Soul Care is unavailable, but you can change that!

A pastor inhabits multiple roles—teacher, preacher, youth leader, and counselor. And yet, many church leaders feel unprepared to counsel church members struggling with any number of difficult, multifaceted problems—whether from a lack of training, inexperience, or both. This book by David Powlison—an experienced counselor and the former executive director of the Christian Counseling &...

cure of even thirty souls, let alone one hundred, five hundred, or five thousand souls? What pastor has time to get the presumably necessary secularized education? Having labored long toward your ordination by the church, who has time or inclination to labor for a second ordination by the mental health system? What pastor could ever invest so much time in one-to-one counseling? A pastor needs a very different vision for what counseling is and can be. Second, what true pastor believes that the love
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