Aaron's Comments

I'm going to post a few of the many great comments from this week's series, here's a few from Aaron ...

This just hit me, so take it for what it is worth. Many of us who are planters/future planters are considered "pastors." Pastor, as you see from the Bible, is just a fancy term for shepherd. What is a shepherd's job? It's not to shovel grass into the sheep's mouth and chew for them. It's to lead them to greener grass, fresher water, etc. The sheep are responsible for eating. The ones that the shepherd may need to help feed are the injured, the sick, the young.This post nailed it. If we haven't "led our flock to greener pastures"--if we haven't equipped them to feed themselves--then we have a problem to fix. But if its a "sheep that just won't eat"--a Christian who should be feeding themselves AND feeding others (see Hebrews 5:11-6:2), that's a whole different (and potentially poisonous) story.

AND HE WROTE:

I remember reading somewhere that Christians are spending so much time learning (Sunday AM, Sunday PM, midweek PM, Sunday School, small group or whatever combination their church has) that they have no time to apply anything. The last thing they need is to go to another Bible study. You nailed the whole "superior" thing. Having been down this road myself (and spending several years repenting of it), learning about Jesus without proactive application won't produce a Christ follower. It'll produce a Pharisee. It'll contribute to the already crappy view that a lot of people outside of Christianity have about us--that we're judgmental hypocrites. God forgive me for the time I wasted "lengthening my phylacteries" instead of imitating Jesus...