A Christian Worldview

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A Christian Worldview

• Practical things
• E-mail addresses
• Audio permissible
• Review of last week
• What is a Christian Worldview?
• What is a Secular Worldview?
• How does our worldview impact on our pastoral
  care?
• Practical
• Skills

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Review of last week

• Topics to be covered

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Topics that will be covered

• Life and death issues
• Abortion, contraception and IVF
• Euthanasia and assisted dying
• Sexuality healthy and unhealthy expressions
• Family issues and parenting
• Marriage Relationships
• Addiction
• Death, dying, bereavement, grief and loss
• Physical and mental illness
• Abusive relationships

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Review of last week

• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)

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Review of last week

• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)
• Good Pastoral Care uses counselling skills

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Key concepts

• Counselling Skills
• Counselling Skills enables you to work with the
  emotional experience of others, exploring their
  issues and concerns. This will include skills
  such as attention giving, active listening,
  reflecting, paraphrasing, summarising,
  questioning and focusing.

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Review of last week

• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)
• Good Pastoral Care uses counselling skills
• What is Pastoral Care
• What all is included in pastoral care

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Pastoral Care

• Good Listening
• Practical things after their story has been told
• Meals
• Hospital Appointments
• Looking after children
• Cut lawns
• Notes of encouragement (anniversaries, special
  times)
• Friendship (being the practical arms of Jesus in
  a situation of need)
• Prayer Ministry
• Bringing wisdom into situation
• Prompting of Holy Spirit
• Takes time

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Review of last week

• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)
• Good Pastoral Care uses counselling skills
• What is Pastoral Care
• What all is included in pastoral care
• Balancing grace and truth
• Compassion within boundaries
• Some basic skills

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Review of last week

• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)
• Good Pastoral Care uses counselling skills
• What is Pastoral Care
• What all is included in pastoral care
• Balancing grace and truth
• Compassion within boundaries
• Some basic skills
• Active Listening

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A Christian Worldview

• What is a Christian Worldview?
• What is a Secular Worldview?
• How does our worldview impact on our pastoral
  care?
• Practical
• Skills

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What is a worldview

• It refers to the framework through which an
  individual interprets the world and interacts in
  it.
• First, it is important to understand that
  everyone has a worldview. Our worldview is our
  framework for viewing reality. It is like a pair
  of glasses. Everything we see or think about is
  filtered by our worldview.
• Recognizing your worldview is very important
  since it affects how you interact with reality.
• Am I offering pastoral care consistent with my
  worldview

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Which Worldview?
God
Man
Values, Attitudes, Behaviours
Values, Attitudes, Behaviours
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Which Worldview?
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Christian Worldview vs Secular Worldview

• What are the differences?
• Exercise

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the born-again head of Channel 4 last night
declared Big Brother a Christian parable for our
times. Openly declaring his evangelical beliefs,
Andy Duncan claimed that the reality television
show was a modern-day embodiment of biblical
values. Fights and one incident of contestants
having sex on a teenage version of the programme
have prompted hundreds of complaints. Mr Duncan
said Look beyond the shouting and swearing to
the people themselves. There are positive values,
transformatory experiences and examples of
personal growth to be found. For the record, I am
a practising Christian on what might be called
the evangelical wing of the church. He added
Big Brother winners are all role models in their
way not only because over past series theyve
included ethnic minorities, a gay man and a
transsexual as well as an evangelical Christian
but because in the final analysis viewers
choose people whose values they identify with and
admire. For many viewers they offer positive
examples and practical inspiration for their own
lives, and thats something Im certainly not
ashamed of. He identified the Christian Big
Brother values promoted by the contestants as
honesty, integrity, constancy and kindness.
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A Christian Worldview

• What is a Christian Worldview?
• What is a Secular Worldview?
• How does our worldview impact on our pastoral
  care?
• Practical
• Skills

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Christian vs Secular Worldview
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A Christian Worldview

• You have been asked to speak to Mary who is
  pregnant. She is 17 years old and in a steady
  relationship with her boyfriend John.

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Key concepts

• Counselling Skills
• Counselling Skills enables you to work with the
  emotional experience of others, exploring their
  issues and concerns. This will include skills
  such as attention giving, active listening,
  reflecting, paraphrasing, summarising,
  questioning and focusing.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• Your turn!

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• As Youth Leader in your church you become aware
  Simon and Jayne, two 14 year olds in the club are
  having sex.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• Joan aged 31 approaches you for a chat and
  informs you she no longer loves her husband. She
  tells you about George a friend she has made at
  work and asks you for advice as to whether she
  should let him know that she likes him.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• George and Mary both aged 22 are attending your
  marriage preparation classes. They are living
  together.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• Your best friend who is dying with widespread
  cancer wants your help to end their life.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• One of your friends children has just come out
  about being gay.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• You are informed by a friend that her husband has
  a major problem with internet pornography and
  chat lines.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• You are woken from your sleep by the phone
  ringing. Your friend George is distraught on the
  other end of the phone. He tells you that they
  have just found out that their 13 year old
  daughter Lucy is pregnant. What are we going to
  do? he says.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• Myrtle and her husband have just been informed
  that there is a high chance that their unborn
  baby has Downs syndrome. The doctor wants to
  bring them back next week for an amniocentesis to
  confirm her suspicions.

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Christian vs Secular Worldview

• There is a major difference between worldviews
• Do I know what I believe? Theology
• Does my worldview influence my approach?
  Experience and practice

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