Counseling the Grieving

Introduction The pastoral ministry of officebearers to the grieving is a vitally important work in the church of Jesus Christ. It is so, first of all, because in ministering to the grieving we are to represent and be the instruments of the God whose work it is to heal the broken in heart and bind up their wounds (literally "griefs," Ps. 147:3). Specifically, as it is the ministry of Christ "to bind up the, broken hearted" and "to comfort all that mourn" (Is. 61:1-3; Luke 4:18, 19), so it is...