Family Visitation (1)

One of the main duties enjoined upon the elders in Article 23 of the Church Order is family visitation: "The office of the elders (is) . ..both before and after the Lord's Supper, as time and circumstances may demand, for the edification of the churches, to visit the families of the congregation, in order particularly to comfort and instruct the members, and also to exhort others in respect to the Christian religion." Family visitation is a distinctively Reformed practice. No other churches...