Description: This course is an introduction to the ministry of the local church pastor. It includes consideration of appropriate biblical passages that inform pastoral ministry, a historical survey of the development of pastoral care, and presents the ministry of the pastor as public theologian (preacher/prophet), church administrator (king), and congregational caregiver (priest/sage).

Seminary: Pentecostal Theological Seminary

Key Words: Foundations; Biblical Models for Ministry; Patristic Developments, Reformation Developments; Wesleyan/Pentecostal Models; The Public Square: Religion, Culture & Politics; Justice and Righteousness; Human Sexuality; Intersections of Faith & Science; Congregational, Community, and Denominational Relationships; Integrity, Ethics, and Toxic Leadership; Preacher & Teacher; Encourager, Comforter, Confessor; Marriage/Weedings, Divorce, Dying & Death, Funerals; Pentecostal Spirituality and Worship; The Anointed Touch; Water Baptism.