To put it otherwise and more simply: a shepherd is no mere warder-off of wild beasts. To save the sheep from wild beasts and all other dangers is not to feed them; and if they are not fed, what matters whether they are safe or not? What is the good of being saved to starve?
-William Still, The Work of the Pastor, Kindle Loc. 1361
Don’t be so busy fighting off the world that you forget to feed the sheep actual food.
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I agree, but so few shepherds are really concerned with protecting the flock from wild beasts… because… they themselves are the wild beasts, progressively so, but beasts nonetheless.
Duly noted.
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