Something Can Be Learned........
My experience with local church localities is something can be learned from so-called denominations.
One denomination my children had been cared for throughout the summer have deacons who are assigned to care for a number of families. The care is carried out through contacting.
Does that happen in local churches?
Has not been my experience.
Can it become a way to shepherd families?
Certainly
In the local churches had there been deacons and/or elders that contact households periodically, would so many have slipped through the cracks?
I don't have the answer, but my observation has been an emphasis on the work and less on the individual. Which is why when a brother or sister stops coming to meetings, how long does that go on until it is noticed a brother or sister hasn't been at the meetings for a while?
Something the local churches can learn from the denominations is the matter of contacting families within their own locality.
Terry
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