When you love sheep, you provide them with shepherds.

Published: June 21, 2020, 10 a.m.

Our recent, temporary isolation is a wonderful reminder that isolation was never Jesus’ intention for his people. Rather than being stranded as individual Christians, Christ has woven his people into the beautiful, ornamented fabric that is his Church. As members of that Church, we are far better together than we are alone. This week we see how Jesus does not leave his people to wander and grow weary like sheep without shepherds. Instead, he works through his people to appoint leaders who serve them as Jesus would. These leaders tend Jesus’ flock as shepherds by guiding and feeding them with the good news of Christ’s kingdom.