Practitioners, Prognosticators, And Specialist

Some of the opportunity and challenges pastor’s facNorth American pastors are challenge in a variety ways, one of the questions that helps a pastor to define his true intentions is figuring out some of the following ideas and awareness.

Increased wisdom for prophetic ministry: Clergy will report that they have gained insight, models, and mentors to respond creatively to their ministerial contexts.

Pastors have been instrumental in starting health programs and are sensitive to the needs of their congregation and the surrounding community of the church (Butler-Ajibade, P., Booth, W., Burwell, D., Burwell, C., 2012). Also, the members of the church have always utilized the church and the pastor for spiritual guidance, social needs, and health support or assistance (Ford, 2013). Pastors are also aware of the needs of their community and the community is willing to listen to them viewing them as spiritual leaders as well as educators (Ford 2013).

Being newly diagnosed with poor prognosis can open doors to a variety of negative emotions, cognition, behaviour and physical pain, and many of which are devastating. There is no right way to react when given the bad news of a poor prognosis. It may come as a shock, the news may be so unbearable that the sufferer switch off, become silent or try to deny it. There are many physical, emotional cognitive and behavioural responses to poor prognosis. The experience is quit unique and each individual response varies.

You’re there to deliver a message. Preaching and teaching does not mean everything in your ministry. But preaching and teaching starts all the fires in your ministry.

The path to becoming a preacher started very early on in their lives. Stated in McMahon’s (n.d.) writing, preachers were raised by godly parents who educated them with the basic standards of that time. They were then sent to achieve their ministerial training, that could either take place at Oxford or Cambridge University. The process still wasn’t finished, they needed to shadow a godly minister. The final step was actually preaching to the congregation under the watch of the godly minister. These preachers were there to honor Christ and make him happy, they didn’t care if they got paid or not. There were hours of studying and preparation for each sermon preached (McMahon, n.d.). Everyone was relying on them to provide them with the best and most accurate information about their Lord. According to the “Journal of Church and State” (2014) and McMahon (n.d.), the preachers of the gospel really wanted to

This component allows him to understand his task. Dr. Cothen mentions in The Pulpit Is Waiting that the pastoral preachers congregation comes on Sunday to hear from God. Therefore the pastoral preacher must be intentional as he studies and prays through the preparation for the preaching event. Since he loves his people he will have a desire to preach what they need to hear, while taking their needs into consideration. He will also have a desire to see the lives of his congregation transformed. He understands that the Word of God and dependence on the Spirit are the only things that can turn the hearts of

A football player must be able to tackle, block, and run. Accountants need to be able to read a balance sheet and understand tax codes. Likewise, doctors need to know how to diagnose diseases and stitch. In every vocation there is a list of required skills needed in order to be considered outstanding. Leading a church is no different. Pastors have a Biblical mandate to teach and have certain distinctions in character (1 Timothy 3 & Titus 1). Beyond these biblical qualifications, developing administrative and people skills are of paramount importance in the church today. The text, Pastoral Helmsmanship: A Pastor’s Guide to Church Administration, is written to address and solve some of the most difficult challenges a pastor will face.

The activities that led to this good prognosis is that the patient was actively involved in taking care of her health. She did regular self-examinations and that led her to identify a small, hard, painless lump in her left breast which she kept an eye on. She also sought for medical attention when the lump did not disappear. Also the removal of the five lymph nodes of which two containing the malignant cells helped decrease the chance of developing a secondary tumor due to metastasis. Lastly, with the courses of radiation and chemotherapy that will help to kill any remainder tumor cells and decrease the chance of tumor growth and also decreases the effects on healthy tissues. In conclusion, the early diagnosis and treatment limit the extent of the cancer and improves the chances of survival leading to a good prognosis.

Part of God’s calling for me is to offer healing and freedom to others. When Jesus was here on earth, His mission was “to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners” (Isaiah 61:1, New International Version). Jesus’s purpose of healing and freeing people is what He is actively pursuing today. Moreover, He has invited me to join Him in the same endeavor—to help people find restoration and increased freedom in their lives. I could have pursued several different directions to fulfill the calling God has given me. A career in the medical field seemed an obvious choice; however, the biological sciences are unappealing as are blood and internal organs and functions, which leave me somewhat queasy. Philosophy and theology are other directions I considered. Being a pastor and helping others to find meaning and hope in relationship with Jesus Christ has a certain appeal. Understanding human nature and behavior, however, kindles far greater interest than any other option to fulfill my

Speaks has discussed a need to awaken pastors to an awareness of their false self-perceptions and their devastating expectations. He suggested that pastors must realize and face the fact of their humanity. This humanity provides them with certain weaknesses. These weaknesses make pastors vulnerable to diseased lifestyles, and because of these varied stressful internal and external life experiences, they become sick. There are certain standards created by society and the church with

In addition, a preacher ought to know that he really possesses the Spirit of God, and that when he speaks there is an influence upon him that enables him to speak as God would have him, otherwise out of the pulpit he should go directly; he has no right to be there, he has not been called to preach God’s truth

It is also important for a pastor to help develop people and then release them to become who God created them to be. When a mother and father have children, they invest many years of blood,

This gift can still be received even, today if we truly desire we are told "ask and it shall be given ...you receive not for you ask not" our God does not impose anything on us even the good things. He wants us to make our choices freely. When we are filled with this power our churches will come alive. A church that does not allow the

“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ…” (Ephesians 4:11-12). This passage in Ephesians establishes the ability to be a pastor and teacher as a gift. The pastor is often looked at as the face of a local church. This is evidenced by the fact that when people are discussing a church, someone will almost certainly ask the question: “Who is the pastor of that church?”. The pastor plays an important part in a local church. He is generally looked to as the leader, the head teacher, and the lead counselor to a specific local assembly. But a pastor’s not just the leader of a local church. It’s important to examine how the Bible defines a pastor.