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Counsel Your Flock: Fulfilling Your Role as a Teaching Shepherd is unavailable, but you can change that!

“One of the surest signs of the blessing of God upon His people is the gift of spiritual shepherds who faithfully care for His flock,” writes Paul Tautges. Sadly, pastors today have become business professionals who are no longer content to shepherd their flocks by teaching the Word of God and caring for their souls, but instead farm their people out to psychological counselors, who are incapable...

instead took care of themselves. Both Jeremiah and Ezekiel issue forth woes to lazy shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD. Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds,” declares the LORD. Jer. 23:1–2 Son of man, prophesy against the
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