Visitor’s Book of Texts
A Vital Tool for Pastoral Visitation
| Weight | 0.25 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 18.1 × 12.1 × 1.5 cm |
| ISBN | 9781848710719 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| format | Book |
| page-count | 296 |
| Original Pub Date | 1856 |
| Banner Pub Date | Mar 1, 2010 |
Book Description
The pastoral visitation of the sick and sorrowful is a spiritual exercise. Its purpose is to bring God’s Word to those in need in the prayerful hope of the Spirit’s blessing upon it. Such visitation is not the preserve of pastors only; it is the duty of the whole church, as our Lord reminded his disciples with the words, ‘I was sick, and ye visited me’.
How we should visit the sick, and what we should say on our visits to them are the important matters addressed in this most useful book. Written by a spiritual giant of the nineteenth century church, the book contains much-needed advice and clear guidance. Bonar gathers together a great number of Bible verses that will prove eminently suitable for a wide range of individual cases. These selected scriptures are interspersed with the author’s own brief, spiritual, and helpful comments. Here then is a book that should be in the hands of every Christian visitor. It ought to be consulted prayerfully before embarking with God’s Word to the sick and sorrowful.
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| Introduction | vii | |
| PART I – The Word Brought Near the Sick | ||
| 1 | The believer is sick | 3 |
| 2 | The sick believer troubled— | 17 |
| I By temptation | 19 | |
| II By circumstances connected with his sickness | 23 | |
| III Under bodily pain | 28 | |
| 3 | The believer is dying | 35 |
| 4 | The sick person’s spiritual state is unknown to you | 49 |
| 5 | The sick person lacks knowledge | 59 |
| 6 | The sick person is self-righteous | 69 |
| 7 | The sick person is anxious | 81 |
| 8 | The sick person is a backslider | 93 |
| 9 | The sick person is hardened, because sceptical | 105 |
| 10 | The sick person is indifferent | 117 |
| PART II – The Word Brought Near to Seven Classes Who May Be Found in the Sick Room | ||
| 11 | Recovery from sickness—the believer’s case | 129 |
| 12 | Recovery from sickness—the case of the nominal Christian and the unbeliever | 139 |
| 13 | For the aged who are sick | 147 |
| 14 | For young men or women who are sick | 161 |
| 15 | For children who are sick | 173 |
| 16 | For those attending to the sick | 183 |
| 17 | For the friends of the sick | 193 |
| PART III – The Word Brought Near to the Sorrowful | ||
| 18 | The sorrowful, when their thoughts are directed to their own loss in the death of friends | 203 |
| 19 | The sorrowful, when their thoughts are directed to the state of those who have died— | 215 |
| I In regard to those who have died in the Lord | 218 | |
| II In regard to those of whose state you are ignorant | 222 | |
| III In regard to those of whom you fear the worst | 225 | |
| 20 | The sorrowful—widow and orphan | 231 |
| 21 | Sorrowful because of forebodings and cares | 241 |
| 22 | Sorrowful because of worldly circumstances | 255 |
| 23 | Sorrowful because of persecution, lack of sympathy, or the like | 263 |
| 24 | The sorrow of the world | 271 |
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mr. kevin_cauley –
This book has been great blessing to me on pastoral visitations. Usually, before visitations, I will meditate and pray over the various texts and think about the state of the person I am seeing. I especially appreciate how Bonar reminds us that not only is the physical welfare of the person to be considered but also the spiritual state of the person. This aspect of Bonar’s book has kept me alert to issues that may not be readily seen or even spoken of. I recommend this book very highly as a useful tool. In fact, I own four copies, one to give away, one for my office, one for my home, and one for my car,