Thoughts on Family Visitation

I have been asked to express my personal feelings toward the important pastoral work of family visitation. Family visitation is a Reformed Institution of long standing according to Church Order (commentary of Monsma and Van Dellen). It dates back to the Convent of Wezel. 1568. Also it belongs to the area of our church polity as required by our Church Order Art. 23. Both of these articles speak of the purpose of family visitation as being that of edification, of comfort and instruction,...