Menemukan Dasar Komprehensif Eksistensi Church Pastoral Ministry di Masa Kini

Abstract

Since 1980 we have experienced superfast and super-cataclysmic changes. Because it happened quietly, Barna from the United States called it quiet revolution. I agree with Barna "we cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, and the old assumptions". We are not effective if we maintain old ways, strategies, and assumptions. Then we can assume the church pastoral ministry is not effective if we continue to use our methods, strategies, and assumptions so far. The old method, for example, was limited to pastoral visits by church residents. The old strategy rested only on the ministry of the pastor's ecclesiastical officials as church leaders. Our theological assumption is a pastoral perspective like the metaphor of the Good Shepherd (John 10). John 10 reflects the shepherd-man as leader relationship with sheep-animals as people. Assuming shepherding, we are psychologically immersed in ancient Jewish culture and do not animate our ever-changing superfast and superfast changing culture. Given the background of such thinking in recent years I have exercised my minds and found 6 comprehensive foundations of ecclesiastical pastoral care as an equilateral 6 facets (hexagon), namely operational, biblical, ecclesiological, historical, cultural, and professional. This hexagonal comprehensive foundation helps us create ways, strategies, and assumptions of church pastoral ministry that are congruent with the context of life and effective today