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The shepherding that builds up the Body of Christ is mutual shepherding; we need to shepherd one another in mutuality, relying on those whom we shepherd and receiving their portion, both shepherding others and being shepherded by them so that through this mutual shepherding the church as the Body will build itself up in […]
Learning from Paul to Shepherd the Saints in Love in the Church as the Flock of God
We need to learn from Paul to shepherd the saints in love in the church as the flock of God. We need to shepherd people according to the pattern of the apostle Paul, who shepherded the saints as a nursing mother and an exhorting father, taking love as the most excellent way to care […]
We need to have the Intimate Concern of a Ministering Life in Shepherding the Saints
Shepherding is the bridge between Christ’s first coming and second coming, and we can participate in Christ’s wonderful shepherding by having the intimate concern of a ministering life, the intimate concern for the saints to shepherd them in love. Amen! May the Lord save us from discriminating among the saints, the new ones, or […]
Shepherd the Saints as a Nursing Mother and an Exhorting Father for the Church Life
The apostles were a pattern of the glad tidings that they spread, and Paul shepherded the saints as a nursing mother and an exhorting father, imparting to them not only the gospel but even his own soul and life; we need to shepherd the saints in a similar manner. In the Gospels and in other […]
Shepherd the Flock of God according to God for the Building up of the Body of Christ
The apostle Peter was so impressed with the Lord’s commission that he would shepherd His sheep that he told us we have returned to the Shepherd of our souls, and he charged the elders to shepherd the flock of God among them according to God. In John 21, which is seemingly an appendix to the […]
Paul was a Pattern of Living and Ministering Christ as the Spirit in his spirit
A picture is worth a thousand words, and as we read the New Testament we see how Paul was a pattern to us, the believers; he was a pattern of living and ministering Christ as the Spirit in his spirit for the building up of the Body of Christ. Paul enjoyed and experienced Christ, and […]
Being One with Christ in His Heavenly Ministry to Shepherd God’s Flock, the Church
In the previous articles, we have seen what it means to shepherd according to God by taking a closer look at the pattern of the Lord Jesus and the pattern of the Apostle Paul. A pattern gives us a way practically how to do a certain thing, and the Lord Jesus lived out a God-man […]