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Item Open Access Diens en genesing in pastorale begeleiding(University of the Free State, 2013) Els, Johannes Stephanus; Janse van Rensburg, J.English: When a person experiences a specific problem, he/she may turn to the pastoral councillor for guidance. The pastoral process may become a temptation to be used as an escape route from the problem. In this way the potential of the problem for life formation is not accounted for and may inhibit a growth process. This thesis advocates that a pastoral counselling process takes into account the fact that suffering or problems are moments to facilitate being a whole human being. Therefore, a problem should be dealt with, rather than trying to escape from it. To be a complete person, one has to be prepared to serve. The essence of service is derived from the image of God: a healthy human being is a person who thrives on relationships, is creative, behaves ethically, exists responsibly, recognizes need and see life as eschatological. A life without service is reversal of the image of God and consequently leads to an unfulfilled life. The recovering of the role of service in life is a healing experience and can lead to a life of abundance. Events of suffering or the experiencing of problems need an appropriate action. This reaction will shape each person in his/her unique way by discovering the manner in which he/she can become a servant in the image of God. The Biblical way of dealing with suffering and life’s problems is not merely explanation but exploitation as well. God and man form a covenantal relationship to integrate suffering and problems into being as life giving events. Man finds his unique place in life and God gives healing. This utilisation of suffering and problems will subsequently be a healing process. Existing pastoral counselling models were analysed and show that it is possible to integrate serviceable life through pastoral guidance. However, most models also show that being of service through utilising problems is not a specific aim in the process of healing. Three participants in a qualitative research indicated that by ministering their specific events and problems to other wrought healing. Their problems, alcoholism or dependency issues, rape and cancer respectively, helped them to serve other people with the same problems. There is a clear correlation shown between healing the problem and the associated controlling thereof by being of service to other victims/sufferers. Therefore, the expectation that service awareness of problems as a strategy for pastoral care will be a healing act on problems. Pastoral markers who promote healing through being of service is a pastoral counselling that takes image of God as a point of departure, strives to achieve holistic-existential goals, is hermeneutical-pneumatological in character, moves from discipleship to apostleship and progresses educational-covenantal.Item Open Access Die gebruik van meditasie en visualisering in pastorale terapie met tipiese probleme van die vroeë volwassene (student)(University of the Free State, 2008-05) Heymans, Anna Margretha Susanna; Janse van Rensburg, J.English: Recently meditation and visualization have acquired some prominence in the media. This has given rise to the question whether meditation and visualization can be used in pastoral therapy. Can right brain methods be employed to a larger extent in pastoral therapy and can meditation and visualization play a role in this? Traditionally churches have regarded meditation with some scepticism. This study investigated whether meditation and visualization can be regarded as Biblically sound, and whether Church history tells us more about the early use of visualization and meditation. Pastoral methods were investigated to establish an epistemology which could serve as an approach. The models investigated were: Heitink’s bipolar model, Clinebell’s eductive model, Louw’s convergence model and the narrative model. An eclectic approach was preferred with meditation and visualization being used as components within the combined application of all the above models. Brain functions play their part in meditation and visualization. The function of inter alia the reptile brain was discussed. It was concluded that meditation and visualization assist in converting the brain’s fight or flee reaction. It was also observed that during meditation brainwaves are in the Alpha phase which makes the brain susceptible to suggestion. This is why meditation ahead of visualization is important in order to prepare the brain for suggestion. Development tasks incumbent on the early adolescent were investigated. General characteristics of Generation X were delineated. A possible method was proposed where meditation and visualization were used as components of pastoral therapy. This method was applied to five clients.Item Open Access Pastoraat aan adolessente wat by okkultiese subkulture betrokke is - 'n pastoraal terapeutiese benadering(University of the Free State, 2003) Cilliers, Johannes Hendrik Jordaan; Janse van Rensburg, J.; Groenewald, D. C.English: Pastoral therapy is placed within the context of post modernity. Pastoral therapy for occult troubled adolescents can take place only if the Bible is the point of departure. The implication of this is that the therapeutic model is structured within a diaconiological epistemology. This implies a critical stance towards Practical Theology as well as postmodern epistemological therapies. It also means that the use of certain therapeutic strategies must comply with the diaconiological epistemology as point of departure. Pastoral theology must never become secular. The postmodern critique on modernism is plausible but the negative influence of the New Age movement on postmodernism must be emphasized. Qualified postmodernism is however, maintained. The pastoral therapy may use postmodern strategies without accepting assumptions such as relativism. The epistemology of the diaconiological approach, with the Bible as point of departure, is accepted rather than Practical Theology. For this reason the poimenetic models and postmodern epistemologies may be used for pastoral therapy provided the reformed aspects of Biblical truth, covenant orientation and redemption occupy center stage. The research methodology has looked at the pastoral therapy of occult troubled adolescents by means of a reformed dogma. The semantic clarification assists the therapist to eliminate misunderstandings regarding problems in the field of occult related phenomena. It is necessary for the therapist to establish the nature of his or her client's involvement in occultism. Clients may sometimes feel bound because of a certain psychopathological problem. The pastoral therapist has the responsibility to discern these symptoms from occult manifestations by means of a process of elimination. Therefore the therapeutic process may have a different approach. It won't help using conventional pastoral strategies. Rather a pastoral process of proclaiming the Gospel message in conjunction with a ministry of deliverance must be undertaken when symptoms of occult manifestations are diagnosed. If drug abuse is prevalent in the client, he or she needs to be rehabilitated while the therapist is included in the multi-professional team. The therapist must take note of the scope of adolescence as well as the pastoral therapeutic markers for adolescent personality and behaviour. The therapist must acquire a working knowledge of delinquency, peer groups and subcultures. The elements of an occult subculture have been distinguished. In the phenomenological study reasons for involvement with occult subcultures have been established. In general the findings of the media search had the same correlation with the findings of the phenomenological study. Mention was made of cases where the pastoral intervention had no success. The profiles of adolescents who can be helped involve those who commit themselves to both a spiritual growth programme and pastoral therapy. The multi-professional approach is part of this commitment. The insights of the semantic discussion and both the nature of adolescence and subcultures as well as the research results of the empirical study, pastoral therapy may use the theoretical results in the basis theory to minister to the occult troubled adolescent. In the use of the poimenetic principles the therapist must take particular note of psychopathology and anxiety disorders. Especially post-traumatic stress disorder is to be highlighted. Therefore the pastoral therapeutic intervention towards occult troubled adolescents needs to incorporate trauma counselling. The guidelines for therapists concerning survivors of sexual abuse must be incorporated within the pastoral therapeutic framework. In conclusion the pastoral process must be highlighted for adolescents who were trafficking in occult subcultures.Item Open Access 'n Prakties-teologiese basisteorie vir gemeente-analise(University of the Free State, 2002-06) Schoeman, Willem Jacobus; Kellerman, J. S.; Janse van Rensburg, J.English: Looking at a congregation from a practical-theological viewpoint, the congregational building process plays an important part. Planning of the ministry is implemented as a method of stimulating the process of change in the congregation and setting a course for it. Although it is possible to approach the growth and development of a congregation from various angles, one of the primary questions to be asked will always be the importance and nature of the analysis of the current situation of the congregation. The essentiality of an effective and accountable analysis of the congregation, as a stimulus for purposeful growth of the congregation, therefore speaks for itself. By using the problem-setting as a point of departure, a theory is developed for a congregational analysis. The process for the development of this theory lies on the three levels set out below. 1. The orientation points describe the supposition used as the basic point of departure in a congregational analysis. A hermeneutic model is used as practical theological point of departure, which means that Word and context stand in asymmetrical relation; the covenant between God and human being leads to specific structures of service in the congregation; and there is supposed to be a critical assumption between Word and context. The congregation is scrutinised both as defined and empirical subject. The building of a congregation is a process, which assists a congregation in giving structure (form-giving) - from its identity within its service structures - to its being a congregation; so that the congregation finally reaches its goal. 2. The fundamental points of departure indicates the principles which are handled when a congregation is scrutinised. The identity of the congregation lies on the level of an exclusive covenant relationship with the Holy Trinity; a reformed congregation offering the Word of God and the sacraments in pure form; a congregation bound to the denomination by keeping it amongst themselves; and a congregation who uses the four characteristics of the church (unity, holiness, universality and apostolicity) as guidelines for their work. The purpose of the congregation belongs to the nature of the congregation and this is not negotiable; a healed world of which the congregation is a witness in word and deed. The four service areas integrate the total ministry of the congregation. Leitourgia - worship; Kerugma - preaching; Koinonia - love and acceptance; and Diakonia - to be of service to others. The concrete congregation can only be understood by looking at the Identity, purpose and service structures of the congregation. The spirituality of the congregation results in the congregation getting a concrete structure at a specific place, time, and in a specific way by giving the four service areas their set places. The congregation and its members are formed by the context and should be of service within the South African community. 3. The methodological suppositions indicate the way in which the procedures are followed in implementing an analysis of a congregation. A congregational analysis should comply with the following methodological requirements: Reliability, validity, and generalisation. In carrying out an analysis of a congregation,qualitative, quantitative or narrative methods may be used. Congregational analysis is a research method in its own right and it forms a part of the bigger process of building a congregation. This process is never completed.Item Open Access Verantwoordelike vernuwing in die Evangelies-Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika(University of the Free State, 2012-11-10) Bester, Andries Johannes Daniël; Janse van Rensburg, J.English: Responsible renewal in the Christian church is a subject that has been debated widely for the past few decades and the debate takes on various forms. In some circles renewal means the implementation of new styles of service (ministry), resulting in a change in the character and spirituality of the church. It would, however, seem that most of the renewal movements simply have in mind numerical growth as a paradigm. For proponents of the Emerging Church the word “renewal” seems outdated, as it simply links to a forced adaptation from an old obsolete paradigm of being church. The Evangelies-Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika (EGK) has as one of its aims the continuous focus on renewal with regards to a new breeze in witness, experience and message. In doing so, the church declares that a dead formalism and cold orthodoxy (teaching without life) are not welcome. On the one hand, the EGK assumes a strong conservative character, in all aspects obedient to the Bible as the Word of God, whilst, on the other hand, campaigning for spiritual renewal so that the lives of members will be in line with the holiness doctrine of the church. This research is aimed at establishing how practical and meaningful renewal can be achieved within the EGK, without the church compromising its Biblical convictions and conservative character. It is shown how the EGK was founded in 1944 from the ranks of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) to answer to the need for spiritual renewal amongst evangelical members within the NGK. In this regard, the establishment of the EGK itself can be regarded as a renewal church. After six decades since its founding, there is a dire need for spiritual renewal, which will bring the lives of members of the church in line with its doctrine. Such renewal is eminently the work of God, but obedient men are the agents in realising renewal. As a starting point a theoretical basis investigation was done with regard to a Practical Theological ecclesiology in order to reach a meaningful practice theory for responsible renewal within the EGK. The Bible is the basis for establishing what the calling and task of the church ought to be, and the principles for being church are confirmed anew. This theoretical basis investigation is expanded in order to establish what responsible renewal involves according to the Bible. In both chapters contributions from leading local Practical theologians and those worldwide were researched, and data was tested against the Scriptural accuracy thereof. Furthermore, research was done with regard to contemporary renewal tendencies within the Church of Christ. The “Church Growth Movement”, “Seeker Sensitive Movement”, “Emerging Church”, “Jesus Seminar”, and the “New Reform Network” are critically judged from the diaconiological paradigm. For an empirical study qualitative interviews were conducted with leaders in the church regarding their experience of the status quo within the EGK, and to acquire proposals towards responsible renewal. This qualitative research was done in accordance with an interpretative approach in which initial concepts are validated and configurations done towards forming a theory which results in a more effective praxis. In accordance with the nature of a diaconiological epistemology, Scriptural principles are supplemented with knowledge from the human sciences and a new practice theory is suggested regarding responsible renewal within the EGK.