I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD (4 OF 7)
Scripture: John 10:1-21
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I Am the Good Shepherd (4 of 7)
Series: Who Do You Say that I Am?
Dave Gustavsen
John 10:1-21
We are taking seven weeks to walk through the ''I am'' statements of Jesus-seven places in the Gospel of John where he described himself beginning with the words, ''I am.'' Everybody has a perception in their mind of who Jesus is. And that perception has probably been influenced by our culture and our own assumptions and maybe some bad teaching we've gotten, so it's easy to wind up with a distorted view of Jesus.
Sometimes, the reason our view gets distorted is that our world is 2,000 years separated from the time Jesus walked this earth. And that's definitely a danger for the passage we're looking at today. Because today, we come to the place where Jesus said, ''I am the good shepherd.''
There was a young mom who was experiencing the typical stress of being a young mom. Her kids were demanding; she was sleep-deprived; they had just gotten some bad news about her husband's job and they were worried about money; she was just feeling overwhelmed by life. She was a volunteer teacher of three-year-olds at her church, so that Sunday morning she got up early to prepare, and she saw that the lesson was about Jesus, the Good Shepherd. And her honest thought was, ''This is ridiculous. This is so disconnected from real life. These kids have no clue what a shepherd is.'' So she was critical and stressed out and cranky. (By the way, none of our Chapel Kids teachers ever get like that). So she got her stuff together, and she tried to mentally prepare to teach this lesson.
She survived the art portion of the lesson, which was-surprise, surprise-gluing cotton balls onto pictures of sheep. And then it was time for the serious part. She took another sip of coffee and she had the kids sit down on the floor. And she said, ''Okay. Who can tell me what a good shepherd does?'' The first little hand went up, and the boy said, ''He picks up his sheep when they fall down.'' It ...
Series: Who Do You Say that I Am?
Dave Gustavsen
John 10:1-21
We are taking seven weeks to walk through the ''I am'' statements of Jesus-seven places in the Gospel of John where he described himself beginning with the words, ''I am.'' Everybody has a perception in their mind of who Jesus is. And that perception has probably been influenced by our culture and our own assumptions and maybe some bad teaching we've gotten, so it's easy to wind up with a distorted view of Jesus.
Sometimes, the reason our view gets distorted is that our world is 2,000 years separated from the time Jesus walked this earth. And that's definitely a danger for the passage we're looking at today. Because today, we come to the place where Jesus said, ''I am the good shepherd.''
There was a young mom who was experiencing the typical stress of being a young mom. Her kids were demanding; she was sleep-deprived; they had just gotten some bad news about her husband's job and they were worried about money; she was just feeling overwhelmed by life. She was a volunteer teacher of three-year-olds at her church, so that Sunday morning she got up early to prepare, and she saw that the lesson was about Jesus, the Good Shepherd. And her honest thought was, ''This is ridiculous. This is so disconnected from real life. These kids have no clue what a shepherd is.'' So she was critical and stressed out and cranky. (By the way, none of our Chapel Kids teachers ever get like that). So she got her stuff together, and she tried to mentally prepare to teach this lesson.
She survived the art portion of the lesson, which was-surprise, surprise-gluing cotton balls onto pictures of sheep. And then it was time for the serious part. She took another sip of coffee and she had the kids sit down on the floor. And she said, ''Okay. Who can tell me what a good shepherd does?'' The first little hand went up, and the boy said, ''He picks up his sheep when they fall down.'' It ...
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