Ministers As Care-Receivers

Kerala Theological Seminary Kottarakara
Sub: Ministerial Formation of a Christian Minister

Ministers as Care-Receivers
Rev. Binoy Samuel
Introduction
The Christian Minister has the great responsibility of being ministering the needs and care
towards Christian community or society. The Christian minister of the family should have good
relationship with one account; the duty of the Pastor is sharing the word of God as well as
counselling and fellowship to the people recognising their need of caring.
1.Definition of Minister as Care Receivers

Role of minister is very essential in the church, for the growth and development of the church.
Minister has to involve in many activities while doing mission like to preach, t encourages to
counsel, to comfort etc for believers. For these reasons to do effective mission, minister need to
have support from the God, own self and at the same time support from the people. Through
prayer and care than only ministers can successful in mission.
1.1. Dealing with super-human syndrome and burn out syndrome

Superhuman syndrome
Super human syndrome is a term that appears to have become popular as means of expressing a
perfectionist, burdensome “I can do it all” attitude that leads to burnout
1. Humility: acknowledge limitation and needs out of confidence in Christ gracious power, have
a willing to admit limits, sins and weakness.
2. Love: have a positive approach to people become of confidence in the power and hope of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. Show a servant’s heart to people because we are first and servant of the
Lord.
3. Integrity: responsibility to God and foremost. Demonstrate a disciplined lifestyle the lordship
of Jesus.
4. Spirituality: Demonstrate personal piety (the quality of being religious) and vigour (physical
health and good strength) in relationship with God; demonstrate faithfulness to the Bible and
sound doctrine.
Burnout syndrome
Burn out is a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal
accomplishment that can occur among individual who do “people-work” of some kind. It is
responding to the chronic emotional strain of dealing extensively with other human beings,
particularly when they are trouble or having problems. Thus, it can be considered one type of job
stress. Although it has some of the same deleterious effect as others stress responses, what is
unique burnout is that the stress arises from the social interaction between helped and recipient. A
pattern of emotional overload and subsequent emotional exhaustion is at the heart of the burnout
syndrome. A person gets overly involved emotionally, over extends him or herself, and feels
overwhelmed by the emotional demands imposed by other people.
2. Recognize the need for care for oneself and the family
1. Need: the ministry of counselling is an important part of the wishes to do counselling work
needs to understand the meaning counselling, and to learn the skills that are required. He will also
need to consider the relationship between counselling and others aspects of his ministry.
2. Care: pastoral care is that interaction between a pastor and another person that occur during
some life event, often a crisis, in which the pastor’s personal presence and one that occurs during
some at two points: first, pastoral care is “soul-care,” and second, pastoral care take place in the
foreground of the Christian history.”
2.1. Oneself and the Family
The ‘self? is a person’s recognition of his or her own existence and experience. Each individual
human being has a uniqueness combination of needs, desire, ideas, and emotions, separate and
distinct from those of other human being, and behaves in certain ways as a result. The self is the
‘I’ who the thinks, acts, feels and experiences life as a separate individual.
Family: the minister must take care of his family he must be able to take care of the affairs of the
td home; by ruling it will. As the scripture tells us in 1Tim. 3:4-6; on that runlet well his own
house, having his children in subjection with all gravity for if a man knows not how to rule his
own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God. Not a voice lest being lifted up with
pride he falls into the condemnation of the devil. It is therefore very important that the minister
take time out to be with the children, teaching them, training them, and having fun so that he will
be able to build a good relationship, with the children and at the same time be in control of
activities and ministry.”
3. Develop Fellowship of Care, Support and Mentoring of the Minister and Family in the
Ministry setting
3.1. Fellowship of Care
Christian fellowship also means more than just telling people that others have trouble too. It
means sharing the trouble, helping and supporting those in needs, not just with words of
sympathy, but in a practical way. Paul told the Galatians: ‘bear one another’s, Christian
fellowship as a resource for helping those in need is the responsibility of the whole congregation.
A ministry of love and active concern in which every member of the Church has a contribution to
make.
3.2. Support and Mentoring of the Minister
Mentoring is another word for overseeing. Apparently, the elders in the New Testament serve
overseers. In Acts 20:28 Paul exhorts the elders of the city Church of Ephesus to “keep watch
over yourselves and all the flock”. Church boards can lead by monitoring the church and the
senior Pastor, focussing specifically on the Church’s spiritual condition, theology and ministry
direction while the Church has a Pastor’s, the board must be monitoring the spiritual condition of
the Church along with its Pastor. Then, when the Pastor's leaves, they are already aware of how
the Church is doing spiritually.
3.3. Family in the Ministry setting
The family leader’s example determines how family members treat people all of ages and
conditions; how they communicate love and self-worth. If a family leader believes that his self-
worth is the result of his performance plus the opinion of others, he is likely to pass on those
priorities and value to the next generation by how he treats them. On the other hand, if the family
leader demonstrates humility, grace and an open reliance on God, His Word and His Promises,
these traits are likely to flow into the family members.
4. Seek Care from the Support Groups

The use of the support group in Pastoral care and in the ministry of the faith community can
express many of the values of Christian faith heritage: the man to love another and to carry one
another’s burden, the need for fellowship and nurturing life in growth and health, the importance
of speaking the truth in love, and the worth and effectiveness of laity in giving care.
A support groups can augment pastoral care by meeting a wider range of human needs than
individual care, They also offer laity the opportunity to use their gifts and experience and to
enhance their growth and self-esteem by being responsible for one another. As an arm of Pastoral
care, support groups can be used for referral by the faith community and for inclusion within its
own program. Group outside the faith community can provide support for people facing cancer,
alcoholism, stress, overeating, asthma, grief and divorce.
Reflection
The Pastoral ministry is always comfort to the people, and we Christian believe and have the faith
in worship to God, it is what Jesus sacrifice his life on the cross. We must be in one account in
love of Christ as a Christian social action. Christ is the head of all, the ministers are the servant of
God to serve and admonished the work and deeds by proclaiming the Gospel to whole over the
world. For Christian minister the first priority is a praying, he/she without any heisted support
and mentoring to family or others individual life.

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Kerala Theological Seminary Kottarakara

Sub: Ministerial Formation of a Christian Minister

1.Definition of Minister as Care Receivers

1.1. Dealing with super-human syndrome and burn out syndrome

4. Seek Care from the Support Groups

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