Pastoral counseling combines the insights and principles of Christian faith and theology with the knowledge and skills of the behavioral sciences. Pastoral counseling is an intensification of the general ministry of the church. Its primary goal is that through the process of counseling conversations, and through God’s presence in this work, persons will experience increasing wholeness centered in Christ. Because of the presence of God’s Spirit, pastoral counseling conversations are more accurately understood as "trialogue" rather than as "dialogue".