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Shepherding problems in mainland
Shepherding is
very important in church. In the mainland of
The worker's quality and number are not enough
The workers and adherent
are out of proportion, so limited workers cannot fulfill all the Christians’
need. Some churches need this workers do variable works and make them extremely
busy. Besides, some workers of God don not accept complete theology training,
so they feel difficult to the shepherding. These two factors lead to the
condition that the shepherding is not effective and the churches are weak.
Different groups of people have various needs and
different shepherding according to different people is important.
Generally, the
church works include praying, comforting, visiting, teaching, training and so
on. However, all kinds of reasons lead the works to a humdrum mode----just
preaching on Sundays.
The main reason
is that the mainland is lack of workers of God, besides the heavy works of pastors
make them have decreasing time on shepherding and cannot deeply know their
disciples’ condition. All the time, churches pay high attention to the
preaching on Sundays and it tends to take the place of the shepherding.
On the other
hand, most of the shepherding are just the teaching of the pastors. This makes
the real conditions and feelings of Christians cannot be considered.
The gap of
background of Christians is growing, so in accordance with the different needs of different groups
has become increasingly important for targeted shepherding.
For example, university Christians say
the church life is lack of ethical and moral teachings, no special care and
guidance shepherd them understand the biblical work ethic and principles. Now
the secular trend in society hurt the believers especially the youth, so
churches need urgently to shepherd this targeted group to set up solid spiritual
nurture.
Besides, the
church's marriage counseling should not be overlooked. As divorce cases of Christians
are growing, more and more pastors are deeply embarrassed. Many pastors are
lack of training and do not know how to lead believers to face the crisis of
divorce, so the result often end in divorce. When Christians divorce, it will
bring about a crisis for the church. Mainland shepherd need to be strengthened
and equipped and be more familiar with the Bible truth, and grasp the shepherding
and counseling skills to guide the believers enjoy marriage which pleased the
God.
