Table of contents
Building Your Church Through Counsel and Care
These books, originally published by Leadership Journal, offer deep dives on pressing issues of ministry and leadership from veteran ministry experts like Eugene Peterson, Fred Smith, Marshall Shelley, and others.
- Introduction
- 1 Reforming Spiritual-Health Care
- 2 Strategically Unstrategic Care
- 3 Pastor-Teacher or Super-Counselor?
- 4 “Regeneration, Deliverance, or Therapy?”
- 5 Old-Fashioned Pastor in a Therapy Age
- 6 Why Pastors Make Great Counselors
- 7 Appropriate Affection
- 8 The Need to Be Needed
- 9 Counseling the Seductive Female
- 10 Transference: Loosening the Tie That Blinds
- 11 Staying Close to Your Enemies
- 12 Keys to a Family-Friendly Church
- 13 Support Groups May Be Worth the Trouble
- 14 Caregiver Care
- 15 Preaching for Life Change
- 16 Customizing Personal Ministry
- 17 Called into a Crisis
- 18 When to Intervene
- 19 Shepherding in the Shadow of Death
- 20 After a Suicide
- 21 Rebuilding Marriages in Crisis
- 22 What Do You Say to Job?
- 23 Care for the Chronically Wounded
- 24 Key Questions in Remarital Counseling
- 25 Grief Aftercare
- 26 “Bright, Beautiful, and Deeply Troubled”
- 27 Healing Scars of Childhood Abuse
- 28 Freeing the Sexually Addicted
- 29 Counseling the Rape Victim
- 30 A Powerful Presence
One of the best definitions of leadership is “being willing to take responsibility for someone else.” While pop culture encourages people to break free from obligation to anyone but themselves, Christians who have heard the call of God know that ministry is about caring for others. Care is more than an emotion, a general warm feeling toward people, or an affection for a few individuals. Pastoral care implies ensuring basic needs of the flock are met all with a purpose of cultivating mature Christian character.
This third volume in the Library of Leadership Development explores how to give effective counsel and care in a wide range of critical areas using person-to-person ministry, care groups, preaching, and teaching. Now, in a never-before-collected lineup, are thirty chapters of expert advice from:
Randy Alcorn
Danny Armstrong
Greg Asimakoupoulos
James Berkley
Andre Bustanoby
Randy Christian
James Dobson
Richard Exley
Gary Gulbranson
Richard Halverson
Archibald Hart
Bruce Larson
Kathryn Lindskoog
Victoria Martin
S. Bowen Matthews
Louis McBurney
Al Miles
Robert Morgan
Eugene Peterson
Michael Phillips
Gary Preston
Kevin Ruffcorn
Dale Ryan
Hal Schell
Marshall Shelley
Gary Sweeten
Matthew Woodley
