Art of Shepherding - Session 1

Catching the prophetic wind of God

Karl Vaders- Desizing the Church

Shepherding is the emphasizing God leading not man controlling

FO YOU LOVE ME?

John 21:15–17 ESV

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Numbers 27:16–17 ESV

16 “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation 17 who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.”

Ezekiel 34:8 ESV

8 As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,

LED BY GOOD SHEPHERDS

Jn 10

INTEGRITY

He gives his life for the sheep - stands between the danger

Care is a core value

AUTHENTICITY

Not a hired hand mentality

Intimacy with God

- Knowing the sheep voices

Instruction

Intolerance

Inspiration

DISCIPLESHIP RELATIONSHIP

4 voices

strangers voice (v3)

thieves and robbers

hired hands

wolves and beasts

The Shepherds voice