Preaching and Pastoral Care: Helping a Hurting Church Heal and Move Ministry Forward

Curlee Lamont Adams

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Preaching and Pastoral Care: Helping a Hurting Church Heal and Move Ministry Forward

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Curlee Lamont Adams. Preaching and Pastoral Care: Helping a Hurting Church Heal and Move Ministry Forward. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/f7f706fc-4576-4247-9739-5c2546b2b18a.

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C. L. Adams. Preaching and Pastoral Care: Helping a Hurting Church Heal and Move Ministry Forward. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/f7f706fc-4576-4247-9739-5c2546b2b18a

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Curlee Lamont Adams. Preaching and Pastoral Care: Helping a Hurting Church Heal and Move Ministry Forward. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/f7f706fc-4576-4247-9739-5c2546b2b18a.

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Curlee Lamont Adams

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Abstract

This thesis project focuses on preaching and pastoral care and its ability to help bring healing to a church hurting in the aftermath of issues that originated from previous pastoral leadership. In the black church context, such issues and the resulting hurt experienced by congregations have become almost normative, and the means by which it has been addressed is limited at best. People who have suffered from betrayal, hurt, and loss are often told to “let go and let God.” The perpetuation of this has often taken place from the pulpit, which should be a place from which the good news of Christ’s unending grace is preached. It is the effort of this writer to show through contextual practice how the integration of preaching and pastoral care can help churches overcome hurt in order to move ministry forward.

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