"PASTORAL THEOLOGY & PRACTICE" PROF. HAROLD SENKBEIL & DR. RICHARD WARNECK CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY: CAPTION FIRST, INC. P.O. BOX 1924 Lombard, IL 60148 1-800-825-7234 * * * * * This is being provided in a rough-draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in Order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings * * * * * >> DAVID: Dr.�Senkbeil and Warneck, thank you for this very practical course. It's been most helpful and genuinely appreciated. May we make one last request of you? We would like to hear you identify a couple of the overarching principles which can guide pastors as they seek to properly and help fully minister to their congregation and their community. >> DR. WARNECK: David, we want to say that our time with you and the other students who put questions to us through this entire course has been a delightful time. And I want to say that it's been wonderful to be a partner with Dr.�Hal seen being bile from Concordia theological seminary, Fort Wayne, a seasoned pastor, a scholar and also a very fine teacher of the pastoral ministry. To be associated with him and this class has just been marvelous. For you and your colleagues, I would simply say in closing that the pastoral ministry in our Lutheran understanding of it works with principles. And those principles have a foundation in the Word of God as we receive it in the Holy Scriptures and as understood by our Lutheran confessions. A pastor will be on course if he attempts to confront the varied situations in his ministry from the standpoint of principles rooted in God's word and the overarching principle, of course, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God's love for us and how that Gospel serves people to strengthen them, uphold them in their Christian faith and life, the means of the Holy Spirit working in them as well as in our ministry. So stay on course with the principles, with the Word. Pray and pray diligently. And as king Solomon did of old, seek wisdom from on high and you'll go well. >> PROF. SENKBEIL: David, I also want to thank you and all of you who are learning and express my thanks to Dr.�Warneck for being a partner in him in this very enjoyable experience, to be able to visit with you about these important things. And I would endorse everything that Dr.�Warneck was just saying. Perhaps to capsulize it, it's that formula again that Dr.�Luther said regarding the making of the theologian: Prayer, meditation, affliction. The affliction's going to come. It will happen when you proclaim Christ and him crucified. But if you find your source and your root, your sure foundation in that Word of God, which is sure and certain, you meditate upon it daily and you pray accordingly, God will give you the strength which you need to be an effective servant of the word. Many blessings to all of you in the name of Christ our Lord. * * * * * This is being provided in a rough-draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in Order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings * * * * *