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