EMPATHY: KEY TO EFFECTIVE PASTORAL MINISTRY
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Empathy and listening are the master key to one’s door of life which the pastor should use, in order to gain entrance into the heart of people and help them from within. The most important thing to be understood is that there can never be better emphatic practice without a listening aspect, also listening will never be effective without empathy. These two are interwoven in pastoral ministry. Empathy is the understanding of emotional feelings of others. It is the mirroring of feelings of someone’s suffering.
Gill Hasson says “mirror neurons are distinctive brain cells that fire not just when you perform an action, but also when you use or hear others carry out an action too” it is the identifying as well as me experiencing of the emotional feeling of other people[1].Michael Jacobs defines empathy as the ability to identify with how others might be feeling. Understanding intuitively how the others might be feeling.[2]Empathy or identification means the ability to put one’s self in someone’s shoes, to get into the skin, to experience what they might be experiencing.
It is believed that empathy and sensitivity come hand in hand; you cannot be empathetic and be insensitive. It is also note that people who show empathy towards others as they tell their stories are known to be better pastors, parents, community leaders. Deeper level of rapport with church members and trust are granted and maintained through the use of empathetic rhythms in all walks of life human kind cannot afford to live without it because of emotional turbulence caused by different things in life there will be no joy, peace, harmony as well as emotional healing if there is no empathy in human lives.
Empathy is like a pain killer to the sufferer when it’s properly applied. The good news to all pastors and church leaders is that empathy can be learned. The key skill that you need as a pastor is to be one of these emotional intelligent people. Having empathy simply means that you are willing to try and understand someone’s situation, their point of view, their true feelings; you are interested in one’s situation and as a pastor readiness to respond to their needs and feelings without dismissing them and judging them. .When we put ourselves in the other person’s place we’re less likely to want to put him in his place.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
It has been observed by the researcher that many pastors are not empathetic in the discharge of their pastoral ministry which has hindered the quantitative and qualitative growth of the church. The research therefore at examining the following questions:
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