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Johannes S.P. Rajagukguk
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The Role of Pastors in Pastoral Counseling for Cell Group Leaders Experiencing Internal Conflict Johannes S.P. Rajagukguk; Gede Widiada; Bertina Munthe; Dewi Indrawati Panjaitan
International Journal of Christian Education and Philosophical Inquiry Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024): January : International Journal of Christian Education and Philosophical Inquir
Publisher : Asosiasi Riset Ilmu Pendidkan Agama dan Filsafat Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ijcep.v1i1.563

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Cell group leaders occupy a strategic but underexamined position in congregational life because they translate pastoral vision into relational care, discipleship, prayer, and informal spiritual guidance. This conceptual research article examines the role of pastors in pastoral counseling for cell group leaders who experience internal conflict, understood as intrapersonal, relational, moral, and role-based tension arising from leadership pressure, loyalty dilemmas, unresolved interpersonal strain, and spiritual burden. The article aims to construct a practical-theological framework that enables pastors to respond to such conflict without reducing counseling to advice, discipline, or crisis management. Using an integrative literature review and constructive practical-theological synthesis, the study analyzes scholarship on pastoral care, church conflict, Bowen family systems theory, small-group participation, servant leadership, psychological safety, clergy burnout, and organizational conflict. The synthesis generates three main findings. First, internal conflict among cell group leaders is best understood as a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by role ambiguity, anxious triangulation, and spiritual-moral burden. Second, pastors function most effectively as differentiated counselors, mediators, and boundary keepers who combine empathic listening with ethical clarity. Third, pastoral counseling should be embedded in restorative supervision and congregational learning rather than treated as an isolated emergency intervention. The article concludes that pastors need a theologically grounded, psychologically informed, and organizationally responsible counseling model that restores leaders while strengthening the health of the church system.
An Eschatological-Hope-Based Pastoral Counseling Model for Congregants Experiencing Bereavement Johannes S.P. Rajagukguk; Ricky Lukas; Ferdinand Edu
International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024): February : International Perspectives in Christian Education and Philosophy
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61132/ipcep.v1i1.557

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This conceptual research article develops an eschatological-hope-based pastoral counseling model for congregants experiencing bereavement. Bereavement is not only an affective response to death but also a disruption of meaning, embodied routines, social belonging, and theological imagination. Contemporary grief research has clarified the distinction between normative grief, prolonged grief disorder, complicated spiritual grief, and the heterogeneous trajectories through which bereaved persons adapt. However, pastoral responses in local churches often remain fragmented, oscillating between sympathetic presence, doctrinal explanation, ritual care, and informal advice without an integrated model that is clinically cautious and theologically constructive. This study employs a qualitative constructive literature review, synthesizing bereavement psychology, meaning reconstruction theory, spiritual care research, and Christian eschatological theology. The article proposes the PASTOR model: Presence, Assessment, Story, Scripture, Theological lament, Ongoing communal practice, and referral and review. The main synthesis argues that eschatological hope should not be used to bypass grief but to hold lament, embodied absence, continuing bonds, and future-oriented resurrection hope within a disciplined pastoral process. The model contributes a practical framework for churches seeking to accompany mourners without medicalizing ordinary grief, minimizing suffering, or ignoring cases that require professional mental health referral.
Co-Authors Bertina Munthe Dewi Indrawati Panjaitan Edu, Ferdinand Gede Widiada Ricky Lukas