Hi Richard. The HSR contains lots of pastoral advice and was commended to the churches by Synod 2022. Each topic in the HSR has a whole section on pastoral care. To be sure there are a lot of unique situations that need to be figured out individually as we go along, but that is the case for all types of pastoral care. There is no plug-and-play for pastoral care. But neither the HSR committee nor Synod 2022 left the church empty-handed.
Synod was never going to be in a position to deliver all that you seek - that is simply not Synod's role, and Synod was already tasked with wading through essentially three years' worth of materials. That Synod did not meet all of our expectations is not license for us to accuse Synod of not actually thinking about pastoral advice and simply saying figure it out later.
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Hi Richard. The HSR contains lots of pastoral advice and was commended to the churches by Synod 2022. Each topic in the HSR has a whole section on pastoral care. To be sure there are a lot of unique situations that need to be figured out individually as we go along, but that is the case for all types of pastoral care. There is no plug-and-play for pastoral care. But neither the HSR committee nor Synod 2022 left the church empty-handed.
Posted in: Peace of Conscience and Unity in the Church: Why I Did What I Did As a Delegate to Synod 2022
Synod was never going to be in a position to deliver all that you seek - that is simply not Synod's role, and Synod was already tasked with wading through essentially three years' worth of materials. That Synod did not meet all of our expectations is not license for us to accuse Synod of not actually thinking about pastoral advice and simply saying figure it out later.