Now, I cannot imagine
pastoral ministry without them. I think I will blog more in the coming days on how we go about doing these visits. Tonight, I just wanted to whet the appetite of all you pastors out there!
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Pastoral Visitation (Part II) - Scheduling the MeetingsAt one of our FRPS meetings, a brother shared how his
pastor organized these visits. It was quite simple - but revolutionary to me!
... The advantages to this type of organized
visitation are many, some of which I have already listed.
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Richard Baxter, The Reformed
Pastor, 90. The presupposition behind
pastoral visitation is that it is one of your duties as an undershepherd of Christ's flock to know His sheep. A man cannot care for sheep he never sees.
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I think the one aspect of
pastoral ministry I enjoy most is watching God change a man. The more you pray for this
... In the next post I hope to deal with some of the ways you might practically instruct your members during
pastoral visits.
The
pastoral visit is one such place where this instruction might take place. It generally sounds strange to our ears to read of
... Members under our
pastoral care need us, at times, to give specific instruction. This teaching must be:
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Dan S. asked a two-pronged question: “That brings up the question of the connection between
pastoral visitation and
pastoral care. Are they the same thing in your mind? Does
pastoral care/
visitation give the message that all
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This is great, Paul. I've copied/pasted these to a Word document, and plan to glean from these notes with Phil (the other elder here at Binbrook Baptist).
ReplyDeleteThese thougths should/will prove to really help us as young elders.
Ian.