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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 &...

learning Jesus: “In this is love … that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). On the last day, every knee bows to God’s “values.” The whole nature of ministry is to “impose” light into darkness, to induce sanity, to form Christ’s life-nourishing values within us. Pastoral counseling openly brings “ethical or moral suasions” as expressions of genuine love that considers the actual welfare of others. The conscious intentions of Christless counselors are kindly,
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