Mobile Ed: PC211 The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Heart (5 hour course)

by Harold L. Senkbeil; Logos Mobile Education

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2020

Overview

Pastors care for a soul in the way a doctor cares for a body. In his course The Care of Souls (PC211) Harold Senkbeil invites a new generation of pastors to form the godly habits and practical wisdom needed to minister to the hearts and souls of those committed to their care. Drawing on his award-winning book The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Heart, Senkbeil helps remind pastors of the essential calling of the ministry: preaching and living out the Word of God while orienting others in the same direction. He offers practical and fruitful advice—born out of his five decades as a pastor—that will benefit both new pastors and those with years in the pulpit.

Learning Objectivites

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Explain what Senkbeil means by ministry being an enacted mystery
• Understand the process of pastoral care as listening and conversing
• Describe the four-guidepost approach of faith, providence, holiness, and repentance to pastoral conversations
• Understand the power of the difference between saying “I was baptized” and “I am baptized”
• Understand the power of speaking absolution to the person in need of care or cure of their soul
• Explain why it takes healed healers to effectively minister to sinners plagued with guilt and shame
• Explain the relationship between justification and sanctification
• Explain how holiness is not of the law but of the gospel
• Describe the essential nature of spiritual warfare

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and Course

Unit 1: What Is a Pastor?

• Introduction to the Pastoral Craft
• Classical Cura Animarum
• Pastoral Habitus
• Ministry’s Source and Norm

Unit 2: The Cure of Souls: Attentive Diagnosis

• Contemporary Versus Traditional/Classical
• The Diagnostic Process: Listening
• The Diagnostic Process: Conversing
• The Listening Conversation: Saving Faith and Trust in God’s Providence
• The Listening Conversation: Holiness and Repentance

Unit 3: Ten Theses on the Spiritual Cure of Souls

• The Cure of Souls: Theses One through Five
• The Cure of Souls: Theses Six through Nine
• The Cure of Souls: Thesis Ten

Unit 4: Sheep-Dogging and Shepherding

• Primary and Secondary
• A Shepherd and His Dog
• Justification and Conscience
• The Holy Spirit Brings New Life
• Forgiveness and Healing

Unit 5: Shame and Guilt

• Sins Committed or Sins Suffered
• The Distinction and Overlap between Shame and Guilt
• Watch Over Yourself
• Healed Healers

Unit 6: Holiness and the Cure of Souls

• Holiness and Sanctification
• A Pagan Resurgence
• Continuation of a Biblical Case Study
• Caring for Sexual Souls

Unit 7: Drawing Near to God

• Proximity and Holiness
• Dealing with Addictive Sins
• Liturgical Living & Sanctified by God’s Presence
• Liturgical Life in the World

Unit 8 Invisible Powers

• Spiritual Warfare
• Targeted for Attack
• Forearmed
• Watch Your Step
• The Porn Trap
• Spiritual Boredom

Unit 9: Christ’s “Other Sheep”

• Mission and the Care of Souls
• No Secret Agents

Unit 10: The Shepherding of Shepherds

• Finding a Pastor
• By Word and Prayer
• Spiritual Exercise: Askesis
• Joy in Office

Product Details

• Title: PC211 The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Heart
• Instructor: Harold L. Senkbeil
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
• Courses: 1
• Video Hours: 5

About Harold L. Senkbeil

Harold L. Senkbeil is author of the award-winning book The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Heart (Lexham Press). He is executive director emeritus of Doxology: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care. His pastoral experience of nearly five decades includes parish ministry, the seminary classroom, and parachurch leadership.