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Young people need their pastor, not only as the preacher, or as the youth group leader, or as the energetic dynamo of congregational life, but as the one to whom they can go with their personal problems. They need a representative of the adult world with whom they can share and find in such sharing an incentive for developing their own identity. The pastor is in a unique position to be such a representative since he represents also the world of the Spirit.
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Hulme, W.E. Pastoral counseling with youth. Pastoral Psychol 15, 42–48 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01763355
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