The Pastor as Counselor (Foreword by Ed Welch) E-Book

David Powlison

• Herausgeber: Crossway
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

David Powlison Examines the Unique Role of the Pastor as Counselor A pastor inhabits multiple roles—teacher, preacher, youth leader, and counselor. Yet many church leaders feel unprepared to counsel church members who are struggling with difficult, multifaceted problems. David Powlison reminds pastors of their unique role as the shepherds of God's people, equipping them to apply biblical wisdom to the thoughts, values, moods, expectations, and decisions of those under their care.

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“Here is a loving, tender-hearted, gospel-confident pastor, calling pastors to be loving, tender-hearted, gospel-confident counselors. David Powlison lived the message of this book and gave his life to mobilizing the church to believe it and live it as well. If you’re a pastor, this book is a must-read, but not just once. Read it again and again, praying that its beautiful vision would become your daily ministry model.”

Paul David Tripp, President, Paul Tripp Ministries; author, New Morning Mercies and My Heart Cries Out

“It is a rare privilege to get to hear from someone who devoted his life to being good at one thing. That is what you hold—a conversation with David Powlison about what it means to be a pastor who counsels well. That is what David devoted his life to exploring. Learn from him about the beauty and unique opportunities that emerge from counseling as a pastor, and every area of your ministry (teaching, preaching, mentoring, administration) will be enriched. Your ability to serve as an ambassador of Christ to those who are hurting will be enhanced.”

Brad Hambrick, Pastor of Counseling, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina

“David Powlison was a remarkable man. Out of his passion that the church of Jesus Christ take up the mantle of care for broken human beings in this fallen world, he became the quintessential leader of the biblical counseling movement. Out of his incredible gifting to communicate this with beauty and grace, he became one of the most compelling Christian authors of his generation. As a busy pastor myself, I promise that you and your church need to hear what Powlison has to say. If you are looking for a glorious, compelling, and clear introduction to the heart of Christ for his church, you will not find a better place to start than this book.”

Heath Lambert, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Jacksonville; Executive Director, Association of Certified Biblical Counselors; author, A Theology of Biblical Counseling and Finally Free

“David Powlison’s book is a profoundly fitting final gift to the church. It is a book that takes us to the very heart of everything David believed the church and her pastors should be, a vision that is simultaneously thrilling and challenging, visionary and practical, theologically rich and culturally astute. My work as a pastor is so much better because of it. This book will expand your pastoral ambitions and encourage you to be more like Christ. Every pastor will profit from it.”

Steve Midgley, Executive Director, Biblical Counselling UK; Senior Minister, Christ Church Cambridge; coauthor, The Heart of Anger

“Pastors have unique opportunities to counsel unlike anyone else. With his typically rich insights and thought-provoking analysis, David Powlison encourages pastors to counsel and shepherd their church members. Buy a copy and give this Christ-honoring book to your pastor. He’ll be strengthened and encouraged through it!”

Deepak Reju, Pastor of Biblical Counseling and Family Ministry, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC; author, The Pastor and Counseling

“When our preaching reaches people’s hearts with the gospel, it raises as many questions as it answers. That’s where our pastoral counseling comes in—gentle, honest conversations with sinners and sufferers who want Jesus at their personal point of need. David Powlison is a faithful guide, helping us pastors fulfill this deeper ministry, where people get traction for newness of life.”

Ray Ortlund, President, Renewal Ministries

The Pastor as Counselor

Other Crossway books by David Powlison

God’s Grace in Your Suffering (2018)

How Does Sanctification Work? (2017)

Making All Things New: Restoring Joy to the Sexually Broken (2017)

The Pastor as Counselor

The Call for Soul Care

David Powlison

Foreword by Ed Welch

The Pastor as Counselor: The Call for Soul Care

Copyright © 2021 by Nancy Powlison

Published by Crossway1300 Crescent StreetWheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law. Crossway® is a registered trademark in the United States of America.

Cover design and image: Crystal Courtney

First printing 2021

Printed in the United States of America

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-7301-9 ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-7304-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-7302-6 Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-7303-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Powlison, David, 1949-2019 author.

Title: The pastor as counselor : the call for soul care / David Powlison.

Description: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, 2021. | Includes bibliographical

references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020035588 (print) | LCCN 2020035589 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433573019 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781433573033 (mobipocket) | ISBN 9781433573026 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Pastoral counseling. | Pastoral care. | Counseling—Religious aspects—Christianity.

Classification: LCC BV4012.2 .P658 2021 (print) | LCC BV4012.2 (ebook) | DDC 253.5—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020035588

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020035589

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

2021-04-19 02:41:15 PM

Contents

Foreword by Edward T. Welch

Introduction

1  What Is Counseling?

2  The Uniqueness of Pastoral Counseling

Appendix

Notes

Scripture Index

Foreword

I am so pleased to introduce this concise monograph from David Powlison. As with most of David’s writings, this is a rich banquet. You will return to it and find more. I am also sad that this is a posthumous publication. David went to be with the one he loved above all others in June 2019. Reading The Pastor as Counselor, I miss him all the more.

David was a polymath who knew much about many things. After working with him for almost forty years I still chuckled at his passing references to specific flowers, trees, and birds; quotes from early church fathers; details of a solar event scheduled to appear later that evening; and trivia about Philadelphia sports—those references made all the more amazing because he grew up in Hawaii and spent his pre-CCEF (Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation) years in Boston. But these were peripheral adornments on a man who knew Jesus and loved him, fed on the word, was wholly engaged with the person in front of him, and could enjoy teasing close friends and family (and was happy to be teased). He went through life knowing that he was created in God’s image yet also had much in common with the grass of the field that passes quickly. All this might not be enough of an introduction to persuade you to love him as I and many others do, but perhaps it is enough for you to know that he will be a trustworthy and engaging guide to the pastor as counselor.

For all its practical direction, this book is not intended to be a how-to manual. It is more a marker that clarifies your place in this sometimes confusing world of counseling. It reminds you that—right now—you have much counsel you can offer to others and already have offered, and imagines the path ahead. It will serve you both as an introduction to biblical counseling and as a long-term mentor.