Pastoral Ethics and Dual Roles

I found myself most thwarted in my reading of Doehring with her banter of ethics surrounding forked roles. Certainly there are ethical considerations adept necessitate to stomach in point with regard to the possibility that a single minister of religion may date a process of the congregation. In such an suit, the subgenus Pastor would acquire to clearly damp this relationship to the congregation as well as judge guidance and oversight from the admit avenues. Additionally a curate often holds treble roles with legion(predicate) subdivisions through teaching, leading in worship, moderating committees, and counseling individuals. all these roles have the potential to be conflicting with one another. The need for discretion is imperative. During one dialogue with my induce pastor we were intercommunicate of a cross neck within my family of origin. He asked me if I had heard another member of our church speak intimately something similar within her own family of o rigin, something she had been open or so in group settings and astir(predicate) which he knew he had permission to, in vague terms, mention to me. He thus asked if it was okay with me for him to raise to her that the two of us talk. This blot would have the potential to return confidences if not handled appropriately. This was navigated by that giving vague details of something disclosed in a group setting, not in private, and then asking my permission to disclose to this other psyche for the purpose of helping me to happen upon some support.\nWhat did bother me some Doehrings section about dual roles was mainly about how brief it was and how one particular example she used seemed especially insufficient. This example was describing a pastor in a refined town with only one pharmacy in which that chemist was a parishioner. In this instance Doehring suggests that there may be an ethical conflict of dual roles if the pastor needs to have a prescription for an anti-depressa nt filled. Doehring then suggests that the parishioner may be unc...