{"id":1560,"date":"2010-11-04T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2013-06-17T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:47:23","slug":"segler-on-the-care-of-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Segler on the Care of Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a strong comment from 1960 by widely published Baptist pastor Franklin Segler on the centrality of the care of souls in pastoral ministry.<\/p>\n

“The care of souls is central in the church’s ministry.\u00a0 Therefore, pastoral care is a primary function of the pastoral office.\u00a0 No part of the pastor’s ministry is of greater importance than this ministry to individual persons and families.\u00a0 Helping other persons to grow up in Christ is the very essence of the Christian ministry.\u00a0 Ministering to persons in need is the primary objective of the pastoral ministry.\u00a0 Ideally, preaching and the care of souls are the two major functions of the pastoral office.\u00a0 Phillip Brooks insisted that the work of the preacher and the pastor belong together and ought not to be separated.\u00a0 The preacher who is not pastor grows remote, and the pastor who is not preacher grows petty.<\/p>\n

History witnesses to the centrality of the care of souls in the church.”\u009d 165<\/p>\n

“As leader in worship, the pastor is more than an actor performing for his public; he is a guide in the nurture of souls.\u00a0 As a preacher of the gospel, he speaks to the condition of people as he knows them in the community and in the life of the church.\u00a0 His preaching is always “pastoral preaching…”\u009d 167<\/p>\n

“…the care of souls is always the pastor’s concern, whatever the area of his functional ministry.”\u009d 168<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Franklin M. Segler, A Theology of Church and Ministry<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a strong comment from 1960 by widely published Baptist pastor Franklin Segler on the centrality of the care of souls in pastoral ministry. “The care of souls is central in the church’s ministry.\u00a0 Therefore, pastoral care is a primary function of the pastoral office.\u00a0 No part of the pastor’s ministry is of greater …<\/p>\n

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