Jesus said, "I am sending you out
like sheep among wolves.” (Matthew 10:16 NIV)
The
church is always at its best when it goes into the world humbly, like sheep
among wolves. Ironically, a few centuries after Jesus, when the church did get
some political and financial power, it lost much of its spiritual power. One
Christ follower, John Chrysostom, was reflecting on this verse about being sent
by Jesus like sheep among wolves and how the concept was getting lost as the
church gained power. He said, “Let us then be ashamed, who do the contrary, who
set out like wolves upon our enemies. For so long as we are sheep, we conquer…
But if we become wolves, we are worsted, for help of our Shepherd departs from
us: for He feeds not wolves, but sheep.”
-- John Ortberg in “All the Places
to Go: How Will You Know?”
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