The following piece is so insightful and so important because it explains what true soul ministry is about. Sadly, it's written in very formal English and hard to follow. Because of that I'll try and set the stage. The author is talking about a person who has grown in wisdom and sensitivity for the inner feelings of others; meaning their thoughts, sorrows, fears and failings. And anyone who confides in him has a feeling of trust, unity and love. 
The person counseling has learned how to open up heart-to-heart conversations and reach the deepest needs where no one but God had ever gone before. And it is done in such a warm, loving and sympathetic way that it disarms the listener and breathes new life and faith into their soul and they leave feeling a newness of hope, in God, and in themselves. 
Isn't that what it means to have "the mind of Christ"? 


   "There is no human being to whom we look with so true a faith, as to him who shows himself deep-read in the mysteries within us; who seems to have dwelt where Omniscience only had access, and traced our momentary lines of feeling, whose rapid flash our own eye, could scarcely follow; who put into words weaknesses which we had hardly dared to confess in thought; who appears to have trembled with our own anxieties, and wept our very tears. 
This initiation into the interior nature is the quality which, above all others, gives one mind power over another. If it comes upon us from from the living tones of a friendly voice, we listen as to the breathings of inspiration.
  That someone could have so penetrated our subtlest emotions, and caught our most transient attitudes of thought, and should have so detected our sophistries of conscience, and witnessed the miseries of our temptations, and known the sacredness of our affections, that we appear revealed anew even to ourselves, this truly seems the greatest of the triumphs of genius." James Martineau.