The Origin and Value of House Visitation

The history of family visitation during the first years of the Protestant Reformation, the struggle for establishing the true Biblical religion was fierce indeed. Among the bitter problems which the reformers had to incline, there was none more contrary to the truth and more grievous to their own hearts, than that they were trying to subvert the good order of Christ’s church by insisting on innovations. Because of these problems, John Calvin, in 1544 writes in his essay, namely The Necessity of...