What are 10 practical tools to hospital visitation?

Yesterday, I taught a class at SBTS on hospital visitation. I reminded them how pastoral visitation has become a lost art in the younger generation of pastors and that fear is among the many reasons for the neglect of this ministry. Pastoral visitation, in hospitals especially, raises that fear even more. There is fear of being exposed to sickness. There is fear of what to say; what to do; how to do it? What if I see something that makes me faint? If that is you, allow these 10 practical tools to equip you for this task and help minimize any fear that may have kept you from this most noble and important task. Read more