An investigation into the phenomena and practices of spiritual ...

people. These qualities, however, are not limited to church ministers. It is a requirement ofhuman survival to have the ability to care for others. Some will care more than others andmany people have responsibility for care that resembles pastoral care in their day to dayoccupation, be this paid or voluntary work. Others such as nurses, doctors, human resourcemanagers have this as part of their paid employment. The minister is responsible fordelegating his role and function to appropriately appointed persons as elders, deacons,evangelists, prayer leaders and missionaries.The picture painted by Clebsch and Jaekle (1983) of the main areas of pastoral functionhave similarities to secular discussions of professional functions that encourage andsupport people to develop intellectually and emotionally in the caring organizations such asteaching, nursing traditional and complementary medicine and social work. In all theseareas there is a focus on relationship with self and others on a physical, emotional andspiritual level. Anbu (2008) relates the terms emotional and social intelligence, which werebrought to wide public attention by the pop psychologist Coleman (2006) to nurses as theyfunction in their every day duties of caring for the sick as care practitioner, manager orboth. Coleman (2006) classifies the emotional intelligence as self awareness, selfregulation and self motivation and the social intelligence as social awareness, empathy andsocial skills. Empathy crosses over the boundaries of the emotional and the social and ringsthrough with the ability of the healer to be protected against becoming ill with thecondition of the person who is being healed.The pastor/minister is also expected to have a well developed emotional intelligence,emotional maturity and the social intelligence to be an effective church leader. Thespiritual healer who may be visiting minister or a church member is also expected to178