The Visitor's Book of Texts: A Vital Tool for Pastoral Visitation btp-church-revitalization He examines the assembly’s reform

He examines the assembly’s reform efforts

Jen Pollock Michel

Thompson argues that Acts is an account of the 'continuing story' of God's saving purposes

Love I: Building Relationships in Which God’s Work Will Thrive (25:50)

we are to guard what has been entrusted to our care

The Visitor's Book of Texts: A Vital Tool for Pastoral Visitation btp-church-revitalization He examines the assembly’s reformThe pastoral visitation of the sick and sorrowful is a spiritual exercise. Its purpose is to bring God's Word to those in need in the prayerful hope of the Spirit's blessing upon it. Such visitation is not the preserve of pastors only; it is the duty of the whole church, as our Lord reminded his disciples with the words, I was sick, and ye visited me. (Matt. 25: 36). How we should visit the sick, and what we should say on our visits to them are the