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This research is to find a point of contact between worship and pastoral counseling. It is to explore ways in which worship can contribute to pastoral counseling, pastoral counseling to ministry. Pastoral counseling may face possibilities of losing bigger perspectives on the ministry due to the limited scope on overly narrow theme and on the one􀀎on􀀎one relationship; worship may face possibilities of weakened attention to the spiritual care of each Christian. This researcher will discuss pastoral ministry, which is an another dimension of ministry, pastoral care, the concept of pastoral counseling, and furthermore, conceives a holistic worship through the medium of healing, sustaining, guiding and reconciling, which are what significantly constitute a shepherding. Through this application, the principles of pastoral counseling can be applied in worship; by the virtue of macroscopic meaning, worship provides a field for pastoral counseling and contributes to the effectiveness of pastoral counseling. In reality what pastoral counseling seeks, which includes the relationship between human beings and God, urging for repentance toward healing, spirituality which is an important pillar of pastoral counseling and resource, the source of true eschatological hope, is worship itself. Therefore, worship is a realm that indispensible and precious resources are offered for the effectiveness of pastoral counseling.