Foundations of Christian Leadership, Mentor's Guide, MG07

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F O U N D A T I O N S O F C H R I S T I A N L E A D E R S H I P

Pastoral care has to do with doing all that one can in one’s power to see that each tender lamb is fed, protected, and cared for, enabling it to grow, reproduce, and flourish.

1. Not a matter of seminary training or effort

2. Not a matter of management skill or administrative ability

3. Pastoring is a matter of tending the sheep, of shepherding the flock of the Lord.

a. Presence among them

b. Love for them

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c. Protection around them

d. Leading before them

e. Standing by them

IV. Authority and Functions of the Pastoral Ministry

It is necessary to abstain from all of these things, being

The pastor functions to strengthen and build up the flock of God in all the various areas of their lives, in order that they may grow to maturity and be fruitful in the salvation that they have in Christ Jesus.

subject to the presbyters and

deacons, as unto God and Christ. ~ Polycarp (c. 135, E), 1.34., Ibid.