10 Tips for your next Hospital visit

Posted on November 4, 2013 
Filed under Resources, Theology

Bishop J C Ryle“Pastors should be prepared to minister when they step foot in a hospital room. With someone under your care in frail condition, this is no time to wing it. Visiting someone is not just about what you do once you are in the room, it is about being prepared before you arrive…”

– Maybe this ought to be common sense, but it’s a good reminder (h/t Tim Challies).

Probably few use the Prayer Book’s The Order for the Visitation of the Sick these days, but if you haven’t read it lately, take the time to do so. Here’s the 1552 version. And the 1662 version.

Related: A visit means more than a text – Jean Williams.

J.C. Ryle on Sickness, and Some Thoughts on Affliction, by Neil Prott (both on the old part of our website).