5 Rules for Hospital Visits

[@redeemedzoomer6053]

Very good advice! Good to know

[@knexnhershey]

How is this not the top comment lol 😂

[@jameswoffinden9215]

Bring a Christian get-well card. You wouldn’t believe how many times I visited people in the hospital and they were awake and had a conversation with me but were so doped up that they couldn’t remember I visited. The card is proof for them and their family.

[@edwardcloud8537]

Number 6- no smoking cigars in the hospital.

[@daa589]

This isn't the 50s 😂

[@LauraDickenson]

😂

[@darlahaines6928]

Oxygen may be in use nearby!

[@CheapsKate77]

@@darlahaines6928 that doesn’t matter, actually. I know a guy on oxygen who still smokes…while wearing the oxygen.

[@CollierWardAIA]

Great advice, Pastor. Thanks!

[@Revolver1701]

Good advice. I live in a small town and we used to have ministers who would daily visit people who were in the hospital. It was a community thing and local ministers would share the duty of visiting the sick. So, a well-known funeral director who was also a lay minister used to visit patients. I was very sick with tick fever and in walks the funeral director. Funeral director: How are you feeling today? Me with 105 fever: FINE! Great. Really great. Never better. 😂😂😂

[@SusieQ3]

😂 still kicking! Not ready for you yet! 😂😅

[@annacbrown1986]

Most important rule: BRING FOOD. PLEASE. (Unless a special diet is prescribed of course).

[@dawnmichelle4403]

This is great advice! It can feel awkward visiting someone in the hospital. These pointers should help

[@danitaga5591]

This is a great list. #5 is by far the most overlooked and underrated. Certainly agree with the awkward platitudes comment, but don’t feel as though silence must be filled with anything. Hold a hand, let them relax, let yourself relax, and then you’ll have the real conversations.

[@jessewithrow3344]

Thank you brother! That's really helpful!

[@dariogonzalez492]

This is great! Thank you

[@CheapsKate77]

I wish everyone would heed the advice of not comparing ailments. It’s rather annoying to always hear people minimize my pain because it certainly couldn’t be as bad as theirs. Or better yet, to hear that I should just “push through it” because they do so obviously I can too. 😒😡😢

[@butgod2480]

Good counsel. Appreciate it. And don't sit on the bed. That's Hollywood ministers.

[@adrianestrada9799]

During a recent hospital visit, 0ne friend followed all those rules perfectly and when he left, he prayed for me even though he KNOWS I am not a believer. I still thanked him and then showed him the denominations with firearms video the other day at the range. Ill let him take an L for his prayer. But I did have some really good doctors and some seriously hot nurses. They might have had something to do with my recovery.

[@hailholyqueen]

Good stuff mister.

[@PatrickSteil]

Good words :)

[@mariadempsey4986]

Yes yes yes 🙌🏼 thank you

[@jimholland1592]

😉

[@kathyryan93]

Please speak to my friends!!!

[@robdickinson829]

Sometimes when God closes a door it's the lid of your coffin ⚰️

[@blakewimberly1783]

I was just wandering... Are you a confessional bapist where you hold to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of faith or are you a calvinst bapist? Thanks.

[@joshmanikowski2950]

1689 lbc is a calvinistic confession..

[@lauracheeverauthor]

Sorta bummed out that this was actual, good, legitimate advice. I was expecting something funny lol

[@jamesmooney5348]

Then are those visits worth it?

[@manuelester7420]

Never trust a pastor who opens a sentence with, how long he's been a pastor. Chances are, he's a false teacher. Imagine Jesus starting a conversation with, "I'm the son of God".😏

[@manuelester7420]

I been a pastor for zero years and know better than all my teachers. It's called unction. These days, you're better off reading the bible and asking God for wisdom and understanding. Man will lead you astray.