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Pastoral Visitation: A Pocket Manual is unavailable, but you can change that!

Visiting the sick, lonely or downcast is a duty we all have as Christians. It is not to be left to ministers or elders but is a responsibility for all those who seek to follow Christ’s perfect example. The problem often arises when we actually make the visit. Discussing the weather or the hospital food is all very well, but for our visit to have maximum value we need to try and help the person...

from the murderous designs of King Saul, we are told: ‘Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him to find strength in God’ (1 Sam. 23:16). Undoubtedly, Jonathan’s friendship in itself would have been an encouragement. As a friend, he could have encouraged David by logic and argument, pointing to his skill in evading capture, or by promising to do all in his power to protect him from the king. But we are told he ‘helped him to find strength in God’. How exactly he did this is not spelled out,
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