Pastoral Care

[highlyeccentric]

I've been meaning to put up a follow-up post to the conversations about evangelism and rock-bottom evangelees (is that a word?), because Interesting Things have been said. But in the meantime, I give you this quote:

Pastoral care says: I will listen to you. I won't try to fix you, I won't try to change you, I won't try to convert you, I won't try to turn you into someone like me- because God forbid I would want you to become like me! I will simply listen to you.

I have it in an old notebook, ascribed to "the minister at St Lukes". It had something to do with easter camp- I think maybe a reunion service, but maybe leadership training too.