{"id":286,"date":"2026-09-24T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/?p=286"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:36:51","slug":"competent-to-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"competent to counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1790231704382.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1790231704382.jpg 308w, https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FB_IMG_1790231704382-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many other pastors, I learned little about counseling in seminary, so I began with virtually no knowledge of what to do. Soon I was in difficult. Early in my first pastorate, following an evening service, a man lingered after everyone else had left. I chatted with him awkwardly, wondering what he wanted. He broke into tears, but could not speak. I simply did not know what to do. I was helpless. He went home that night without unburdening his heart or receiving any genuine help from his pastor. Less than one month later he died. I now suspect that his doctor had told him of his impending death and that he had come for counsel. But i had failed him. That night I asked God to help me to become an effective counselor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plkmomentum.com\/book-detail?id=BOOK002417\">https:\/\/plkmomentum.com\/book-detail?id=BOOK002417<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other pastors, I learned little about counseling in seminary, so I began with virtually no knowledge of what to do. Soon I was in difficult. Early in my first pastorate, following an evening service, a man lingered after everyone else had left. I chatted with him awkwardly, wondering what he wanted. He broke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brightfellow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}