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Confidentiality For Pastors

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As a pastor it is important that I maintain a high level of confidentiality so that congregants feel comfortable to come to me when they are needing a listening ear, need to ask questions, or coming seeking advice. Your pastor should be someone you can open up to and be completely honest with, someone you can truly be the real you around even if you cannot anywhere else. This means there needs to be a level of trust and an expectation of confidentiality. Even among the staff and between the pastors this trust with congregants should not be broken. I also remind myself that these confessions are not truly meant for me but are shared as God’s representative. No comes to confess to me and seek my forgiveness (unless they have wronged me), they

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