Zach Byrd’s Reviews > Calvin's Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609 > Status Update

“The bond between the pastor and the local church was a sacred one- almost like marriage- that should not be broken except with clear divine guidance… ‘Because such a bond and obligation is a kind of marriage, as the ancients have observed, it is a thing very unseemly and inappropriate that one who is married with one party should think of another or even be involved with another.’”

A needed message today.

“During a brief visit to France in the summer of 1572, Simon Goulart had been caught in the maelstrom of St. Bartholomew's Day and only narrowly escaped with his life. Back in Geneva, he wrote to a friend: "I have a profound love for my country. Thus, I have decided to stab with my pen those tyrants as long as I live."