Although Richard Greenham of Dry Drayton, whom we met last month, was well known and appreciated as a gospel preacher, it was as a pastoral counsellor that Greenham excelled.
His 20th-century biographer John Primus has argued persuasively that in this area Greenham was ‘an ecclesiastical titan who used his extraordinary gifts to make enormous contributions to God’s church and kingdom’.
For Greenham to fulfill his ministry as a preacher meant pastoral visitation.
Historical lessons for exiled evangelicals
The mass, inward, multinational migration experienced in the UK today is not a novel phenomenon.Four hundred years ago, the …