Wayne E. Oates

With gentle humor and unfailing insight Wayne Oates brings us to a more empathic understanding of backbiters, authoritarians, self-servers, clinging vines, and star performers who create stress and conflict in the church.

i love wayne e. oates. if it were not against the laws of nature i would make him my wife (paraphrased simpson's quote). this book is one of the many reasons why i love oates so much. every pastor should read this book. in a world full of "preachers" that go from church to church whenever they run out of sermons this book is about being a "pastor." oates not only helps you to understand why you should be concerned about shepherding people but helps you to develop the skills necessary to show more shepherd when you yourself are merely a sheep in need of shepherding. show less

I read this years ago, and I loved it. On re-reading it later in life, I am finding some of the author's "recovery" from his childhood of poverty and affliction to be a little too thorough and too instantaneous. Perhaps that life has taught me that such problems early in life can haunt us into adulthood, regardless of the help we find along the journey.

The heritage of the pastoral counselor / Albert L. Meiburg--The pastoral director as counselor / James Lyn Elder--The purpose of the church and its counseling ministry / Samuel Southard--The emotional health of the personal counselor / Samuel Southard--The attitudes of the pastoral counselor / James Lyn Elder--Making the contact:informal pastoral relationships / Wayne E. Oates--Making the contact : pastoral visitation and counseling / James Lyn Elder--Keeping confidences in pastoral. show more Includes Appendix.
Summary: counseling / Wayne E. Oates -- The budgeting of time in pastoral counseling / John W. Drakeford -- The exploratory of short-term interview / Wayne E. Oates -- The exploratory or short-term interview / Wayne E. Oates -- The process of multiple-interview counseling / Richard K. Young -- Recurrent problems of longer-term counseling / Richard K. Young -- The pastor as a marriage counselor / Samuel Southard -- Calling in the help of other counselors / A. Donald Bell -- Ways to learn pastoral counseling / John W. Drakeford -- Pastoral counseling and the communication of the gospel / James Lyn Elder -- Pastoral counseling and the experience of prayer / Wayne E. Oates -- Pastoral counseling and the experience of prayer / Wayne E. Oates -- Pastoral counseling and the interpretation of scripture / D. Allen Brabham -- Pastoral counseling and Christian doctrine / Samuel Southard -- Personality development and pastoral counseling / John M. Price -- Pastoral counseling and the educational ministry of. show less