The Care of Souls

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Todd welcome special guest Harold Senkbeil, executive director of Doxology, the Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care, and the author of the popular book The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor's Heart. Together, they discuss the essence of pastoral ministry, the significance of patience, and the importance of the Word and sacraments in pastoral care. Pastoral work is really the work of Jesus in our time, in any given contemporary moment in history… In the twentieth century, pastoral work kind of took a left turn and reinvented itself in the mold of business perhaps or counseling, and so forth, all of which is helpful, but the essence is really the Word of God and the sacraments. To apply those with the goal of introducing people to Jesus and Jesus to them, is what pastoral work is about. - Harold Senkbeil What are the challenges and expectations pastors face today, and how can they stay true to their calling amidst modern-day complexities? And tune in to discover what part congregations should play in the life of the Church. We were pleased to award three copies of The Care of Souls to our listeners, thanks to the generosity of our friends at the Lexham Press. Congratulations to Patrick H. from Valencia, CA, Terry C. from Perkasie, PA, and Stephen W. from Naperville, IL! Show Notes: The Care of Souls series (5 volumes): https://lexhampress.com/product/258922/the-care-of-souls-bundle The Care of Souls (audiobook):https://lexhampress.com/product/254940/the-care-of-souls-cultivating-a-pastors-heart

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. Welcome to Mordification of Spin. My name's Kyle Truman, and I'm Professor of Biblical
0:53.1	and Religious Studies at Grove City
0:55.8	College in Western Pennsylvania. And I'm here with my good friend and colleague, the Reverend Todd
1:01.6	Pruitt, pastor of a PCA congregation in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Good to be with you, Tom.
1:08.0	Good to be with you, Carl. Great to see you again. We're finally getting to record in person where normally we are miles away.
1:15.8	And so it's kind of nice to be in a room with other human beings.
1:19.4	I think we meet maybe twice a year these days, once at David Halls and once in Lancaster in the summer.
1:24.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:25.2	So it's good.
1:26.2	It's nice being in Lancaster.
1:27.2	It feels like it's good. It's nice being in Lancaster.
1:34.1	It feels like it's ought to be in Florida now.
1:34.6	I mean, it's. About 100 degrees.
1:35.5	Yeah.
1:35.8	I stepped out of my car this morning.
1:37.9	My glasses fogged over.
1:39.3	I thought, man.
1:41.1	But it's, it's good to be here at the, at the underground secret bunker of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
1:48.0	Yeah, but a confidential location.
1:50.0	Steel reinforced concrete.
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