I have been recently asked by someone in the Global Methodist Church if could answer the 19 questions that John Wesley had his bishops ask those wanting to enter the ministry in regard to the GMC. I believed I could so in taking on that challenge I am going to post my answers. They probably won't be perfect or how you might answer them but they will be mine. Perhaps you might ask yourself how you might answer them.
John Wesley’s Questions
15. Will you visit from house to house?
In today’s world, at least in America, there does need to be a leave of caution for ministers especially men doing house-to-house ministry by themselves. This caution does not mean that the ministry should not take place, they need to. Home visitation is what I have done in past and what I am currently doing at St. Marks and as a hospice chaplain. I have been in houses that were mansions and in others where I had to bag my clothes afterward to keep roaches from coming home with me.
We see in the New Testament that ministry happens house to house and in some ways, the church has lost out by allowing all its ministries to take place in the church. I hope in the future, I will not just do pastoral visitation house to house but to lead Bible studies, prayer times, class meetings, and the like.
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