The pastor is never a private chaplain to individuals; the pastor is never an impersonal speaker to crowds; the pastor is set in community and given the task of building that community.

Pastoral moralism focuses on what is wrong with the misfit and, by concentrating on the trouble, alienates him or her even further.

The word “salvation” in the course of its biblical usage developed both the sense of “rescue from destruction” and “restoration to health.”3

Pastoral work, in large part, deals with the difficulty everyone has in staying alert to the magnificence of salvation.