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Once known as discursive ministers of the Word, today’s pastors in Africa also improvise as therapists to varying degrees depending on the possibilities of their ecclesial affiliation. In this article, we seek to answer the question: How can the pastors of the Churches of Africa meet the challenges associated with the therapeutic expectations of Christians without falling into an excessive spiritualization of life events? To achieve this, we put into dialogue the experiences of pastors based on interviews and sociohistorical, theological and biblical reflections.