"Pastoral Design"  [Module #115] (John 10:1-18)

When stripped right down, the model here
For pastor’s ministry is clear –
(Not so in Apostolic terms,
A lesson I much later learned).

So, for the perishing show care;
For wanderer, seek out just where
They’ve gotten to in sun or rain
On mountain steep or gentle plain.

The maimed are those you need to heal;
The sound need feeding – hunger’s real
For all of us, what e’er our state,
Both dead to world and wide awake.

Then list of things one should not do –
Devour, desert, or tear in two –
Though sometimes it’s a tempting term,
Above is model one should learn.

Thanks Lord for this.

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