Should Not the Shepherds Feed the Flocks?

God told Ezekiel to speak against the shepherds of Israel: "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves" (Ezekiel 34:2). They ate the fat and wore the wool, and the sheep went hungry.

A church with a good name and loyal people can run for years on what earlier men built. A pastor can live off that and still think of himself as a shepherd.

Jesus described the same heart in a hired hand when the wolf came: "The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep" (John 10:13).

Pastor Fortunato
Founding Pastor & Preacher of the Word.
Pilgrim Baptist Church — Cookeville, Tennessee

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