Counsel Your Flock: Fulfilling Your Role as a Teaching Shepherd (Biblia.com)

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“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...

as workmen who do not need to be ashamed (2 Tim. 2:15). For that reason, we as faithful shepherds must view ourselves as lifelong students, understanding, as Charles Spurgeon did, that “He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.”7 We must “kindle afresh the gift of God” within us (2 Tim. 1:6). This is what it means to be a shepherd after God’s own heart. If and when the church repents of her love affair with man-centered theology,

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