The Pastoral Role Of The Church In Building Spirituality Among Sex Workers And Transgenders In Medan

The pastoral role of the church in in building spiritual the life of sex workers and transgenders is very important. Nowadays many churches are merely concerned with the interests of church members and lack concern for issues outside the church congregation. Meanwhile prostitute and a transvestite who is out there need assistance and spiritual guidance from a church. Many sex workers and transgenders do not know the direction and purpose of their lives so that they live far from God and become deeper into sin. Many people who avoid this group even see them as people who must be destroyed. Whereas know it is known every soul is precious in the eyes of God. If all thought of the matter the same way, these souls would perish. The church fails to fulfill the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus pertaining to the salvation of souls. The church in its responsibility to provide pastoral care must understand people comfortably become sex workers and transgenders. The church must be able to provide pastoral care for them so that they may have proper and holy lives before God. Churches should not be hostile to them but rather must be must embrace them. Pastoral formation for them must go through special approaches so that they would not feel left alone, that there are those who would minister to them. Such approaches can transform the paradigm of sex workers and transgenders, motivating them to repent and be born again as people of God.