Mastering Pastoral Care

by Bruce Larson; Paul Anderson; Doug Self

Publisher:

Multnomah

, 1990

Overview

In our fax-paced age, when personal contact is often replaced by the technological touch, it is not easy to care personally for parishioners. You see many members only on Sunday morning. Those who are inactive you see approximately two times a year. Because families are so busy, you may be discouraged about finding your members at home. And if you’re buried under administrative details, pastoral care seems like a luxury of a small rural nineteenth-century ministry.

In spite of obstacles, however, you entered the ministry—and remain in it—because you long to care for others. You willingly assume the varied duties of the modern pastorate, but pastoral care is what you want to provide. How to do it with today’s busy members, under the constraints of modern church life, is the subject of this fifth volume in the Mastering Ministry series.

Bruce Larson, Paul Anderson, and Doug Self remain committed to pastoral ministry and are known for offering fresh models of pastoral care. Their insights arise out of the daily challenges of pastoral life.

You are called to be many things these days: a preacher, a manager, a counselor, and a teacher, to name a few. But your congregation still calls you “pastor,” and you happily accept the title. Mastering Pastoral Care will help you live up to it.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The real measure of a church is the number of people in ministry, and central to pastoral care is putting people in ministry and supporting them in their ministries—material ministries, spiritual ministries, healing ministries, and prophetic ministries. That’s getting back to basics. That’s effective pastoral care.” (Page 35)

“Third, there is healing ministry, or more broadly, wholeness ministry. This includes helping people become medically, mentally, physically, and emotionally whole.” (Pages 31–32)

“One barrier to lay ministry is the feeling of inadequacy.” (Page 29)

“First, there’s material ministry. That involves giving money and goods to bless and heal and help people.” (Page 30)

“The best measure of a church is how many people walk out to be the royal priesthood on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. To me, then, the basic product of the church is people in ministry.” (Page 28)

Product Details

• Title: Mastering Pastoral Care
• Authors: Bruce Larson, Paul Anderson, Doug Self
• Series: Mastering Ministry Series
• Publisher: Multnomah
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Pages: 143
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Pastoral theology; Clergy › Office; Handbooks
• Resource ID: LLS:34.0.48
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:39:29Z