A Layman's Look at The Work of the Shepherd

Ministerial training and expectations can be “all over the scale” from entertainment to psychoanalysis to financial planning and professional-level salesmanship. But not one of these things is on “God’s List.”

God’s primary title for the men he calls “elders, overseers, bishops, presbyters, pastors and shepherds” is…Shepherds, as that is what they are called to do: Shepherd the Flock of God.

God lays out the “Job description” in several places in the scriptures, as well as the prerequisites, qualifications, and character requirements. Jesus, God in the Flesh, who is called the Chief Shepherd, commanded Peter to “Feed my sheep: tend my Lambs!”

“A Layman’s Look at the Work of the Shepherd” is an attempt to compile the various passages that teach the principles involved, from God’s point of view, and to present them (teach them) in an understandable way.