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“Ficar ao lado de pessoas em circunstâncias impossíveis será para o pastor um lembrete constante de sua necessidade pelo Deus do impossível”
― Jeremy Pierre, O Pastor e o Aconselhamento: Um guia básico para o pastoreio de membros em necessidade

“Solo cuando usted comprenda la forma en la que Dios diseñó a las personas podrá comprender a la persona que está frente a usted.”
― Jeremy Pierre, La Dinámica del Corazón en la Vida Cotridiana: Conectando a Cristo con la Experiencia Humana

“In a garden long ago, the two majestic beings God had created used their capacities for purposes other than reflecting the goodness of their Creator. Adam and Eve commandeered their design to worship themselves instead of God. Their children and grandchildren have been doing the same ever since.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience

“A morte de nós mesmos para o bem de outros exige envolver-nos nas aflições deles.”
― Jeremy Pierre, O Pastor e o Aconselhamento: Um guia básico para o pastoreio de membros em necessidade

“A pastor who labors lightly among his people often labors lightly before God. A pastor who agonizes with people will feel some agony in his prayers on their behalf.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“In our pastoral labor, Christ is the message and Christlikeness is the goal. We want those in our care to be conformed to Christ, which happens as faith works through love. So the goal of a pastor in all his labor is to elicit faith in Christ through the proclamation of his gospel message.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“Jesús redime los pensamientos de las personas al otorgarles nuevas creencias básicas que los conducen a una nueva interpretación de las situaciones que les rodean.”
― Jeremy Pierre, La Dinámica del Corazón en la Vida Cotridiana: Conectando a Cristo con la Experiencia Humana

“The heart was designed to worship, and if it is not being utilized to worship God, it will worship something else.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience

“Las personas pueden desechar fácilmente a un ídolo en particular, siempre y cuando otro ídolo esté esperando con una promesa de brindar el mismo valor motivador, al tiempo que enmudece y aniquila al corazón humano.”
― Jeremy Pierre, La Dinámica del Corazón en la Vida Cotridiana: Conectando a Cristo con la Experiencia Humana

“…Theology, as revealed in Scripture, supplies the categories for people to understand their own experience. Theology is the standard by which people should measure their experience, not human experience the standard by which people measure theology.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience

“Human glory is not just found in what people were originally created to be – the image of dynamic God, spiritually functioning like him in the physical world. This glory is displayed even more powerfully in what they are now redeemed to be – the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience

“Creating a culture of discipleship is not first about creating programs, classes, groups, or other kinds of structural fixes within the church’s life. Certainly, mentoring programs may connect older and wiser Christians with younger and less mature ones. Small groups may build more intimate relationships with other believers. Age-graded Sunday school classes may offer specific instruction for various life situations. Support groups may care for members in certain life stages (newly married, new parents) or struggles (divorce, depression). All of these can be helpful structures. But a culture of discipleship can thrive without them.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“Counseling in its simplest form is one person seeking to walk alongside another person who has lost his or her way. Professional training or academic programs can be very helpful for honing skill, but even if you have not had these, you can counsel if you wholeheartedly embrace God’s Word as that which shows people their greatest needs and their greatest”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“Counseling that is Christian, or biblical in its most basic form, is a ministry of the Word by which Christians help others understand how their hearts are actively responding to God amid their specific life circumstances, and how faith in Christ Jesus changes those responses.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“Life in a fallen world is touched with misery. For some, it’s submerged in it. That goes for folks inside the church as well as those outside.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“The misery of the world is often what prompts the prayers of God's people.”
― Jeremy Pierre

“Whatever the complexity of people’s troubles, you can always ask yourself this orienting question: What does faith in Christ look like in this person’s trouble?”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“We should strive to make church a place where being anonymous or nominal is difficult to pull off.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“Death to ourselves for the good of others requires getting involved in their troubles. Jesus put himself in the position necessary to sympathize with weak people: “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15).”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“La esencia del pecado es la incredulidad hacia Dios, y ésta se expresa en la forma en la que el corazón humano piensa, siente y decide.”
― Jeremy Pierre, La Dinámica del Corazón en la Vida Cotridiana: Conectando a Cristo con la Experiencia Humana

“Our point is simple: shepherds shepherd. Pastors are about the task of making disciples, and discipleship will often include counseling people through difficult situations. This fact should neither annoy nor overwhelm you. It doesn’t necessarily need to thrill you either, but it should make you see caring for troubled people as part of the privilege of loving Jesus.”
― Jeremy Pierre, The Pastor and Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members in Need

“Se perto do final de seu tempo com o aconselhado você não o ajudou a olhar mais para Cristo, o que você fez não foi aconselhamento cristão.”
― Jeremy Pierre, O Pastor e o Aconselhamento: Um guia básico para o pastoreio de membros em necessidade