Worship as Pastoral Care

By William H. Willimon

Book Overview

Demonstrates how worship and pastoral care can be blended to sustain and enrich each other. Using insights gained from pastoral care and pastoral psychology, William H. Willimon explores what happens to people when they become involved in Christian worship. True pastoral care, he shows, cannot take place apart from an active worshiping community of faith. Worship as Pastoral Care sensitizes pastors to the many ways Christian worship and pastoral care methods can be blended to enrich and support one another. It encourages pastors to broaden their understanding of corporate worship and to become aware of the importance of their role as priests. To illustrate his concepts, Dr. Willimon examines four familiar acts of worship: the funeral, the wedding, baptism, and the Lord's Supper. The psychological dimensions are discussed and suggestions are given on ways pastors can nurture and sustain their congregations through these services.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687463882
• ISBN13: 9780687463886
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Helpful and Organized.

I found this book helpful for pastors because of the organized way it describes the four following acts of worship: the funeral, wedding, baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Worship is mans offerings to God

Too often the worship "service" is great music, a commercial (sermon) and paying the admission charge (offering). The reality of God's presence is reduced to "warm fuzzy" feelings. Dr. Willimon challenges the Church to look at the Bible, God's directions for honoring Him, and the history of man's offering himself to God. A worshipper should leave the worship experience knowing that God loves him; that God is not angry with him; that he is God's child. This book does an amazing job at challenging the Worship Leader, Pastor and Priest to provide those experiences that honor God and fulfill the God-given need in man to worhsip his Creator.