WHEN JESUS SAYS "I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD OR PASTOR, IN JOHN 10, HE IS SPEAKING OF HIMSELF.
HE SAYS HE'S THE ONLY PASTOR.
(THE GREEK WORD POIMOS IS SAME WORD. IT IS TRANSALATED PASTOR, AND IT IS TRANSALATED AS SHEPHERD. PASTOR MEANS SHEPHERD. THE WRITER, JOHN, USED ONE GREEK WORD FOR BOTH)
THE LEADER CALLED "PASTOR" IS ONLY A PASTOR OR SHEPHERD UNDER THE "CHIEF PASTOR OR SHEPHERD"(JESUS CHRIST) 1 PETER 5:4
WHATEVER AUTHORITY THE PASTOR HAS DERIVED FROM QUOTING THE "ONLY GOOD PASTOR"-CHIEF SHEPHERD", JESUS CHRIST
THE LEADER CALLED "PASTOR" IS ONLY A PASTOR OR SHEPHERD UNDER THE "CHIEF PASTOR OR SHEPHERD"(JESUS CHRIST) 1 PETER 5:4
WHATEVER AUTHORITY THE PASTOR HAS DERIVED FROM QUOTING THE "ONLY GOOD PASTOR"-CHIEF SHEPHERD", JESUS CHRIST
JESUS calling (commissions) His church(also called His Body).
"Go all of you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: (o. pneuma
MATTHEW 28:19
, baptivzonteß aujtou;ß eijß to; o~noma tou' patro;ß kai; tou' uiJou' kai; tou' aJgivou pneuvmatoß,
Greek Word: πορεύομαι Greek Strong's Number: 4198
Trnasliteration: poreuomai Phonetic Pronunciation:
por-yoo'-om-ahee
por-yoo'-om-ahee
Root: middle voice from a derivative of the same as <G3984> Cross Reference: TDNT - 6:566,915
Usage Notes: English Words used in KJV: go 117 depart 11 walk 9 go (one's) way 8
middle from a derivative of the same as <G3984> (peira); to traverse, i.e. travel (literal or figurative; especially to remove [figurative die], live, etc.);-depart, go (away, forth, one's way, up), (make a, take a) journey, walk.
41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
The Fellowship of the Believers
42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. Acts 2:41-47 (ESV)IS THERE ANY CHURCH LIKE THIS--EVANGELICAL OR NOT? I don't know of any.
Usually the reason put is that the book of Acts is narrative and transitional so we can't use Acts for teaching doctrine. Obviously Acts covers a transition period. Another obvious situation, which must be considered major, lies in the fact of authoritative leadership in the Apostles. Why did the Apostles
get the authority.
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd." John 10:11-16 (ESV)
"I am the good shepherd...."jEgwv eijmi oJ poimh;n oJ kalovß, in verses 11, 14, the phrase "I am the good shepherd" is repeatedly stated by Christ. Shepherd or pastor is a translator's choice
Greek Word: ποιμήν Transliteration: poimēn Phonetic Pronunciation:poy-mane'
poy-mane'
Root: of uncertain affinity Cross Reference: TDNT - 6:485,901
The same Greek word poimevnaß pastors is used in Ephesians 4:11
TODAY SOME IN THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH IS CHANGING ESPECIALLY BEGINNING IN ACTS 15. Chapter 15 mainly involves Paul's teaching of grace and a letter from the Council stating "...27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."
Acts 15:27-29 (ESV)
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY THE WORD, "church"?
We have trouble even defining what the church is. Is it a local congregation or a denomination? Is it all Christians worldwide or just those who are on membership rolls? What about those who watch services on television, those who are baptized as infants, those who have never been baptized?
Chuck Colson writes:
Normally Christians "will fight valiantly to protect not only the orderly pattern of their lives, but also their property. In protecting their building and property, they believed they were protecting their church. They were one and the same."
"No perception is more firmly rooted in our culture than that the church is a building-a view held by both churched and unchurched.
Who does not say, "I'm going to church"? We call the place where we worship, the church. And when we say we are "building a church," we mean we are constructing a facility, not that we are building men and women in spiritual maturity. In a thousand common expressions we refer to the church as a place.
This is no harmless colloquialism. It both presupposes and conditions our view of the chuch, creating what some have aptly called the "edifice complex," wherein the importance is directly measured by the size and grandeur of the structure itself.
But this perception of the church as a building is only a symptom of a much broader problem-a genuine identity crisis. Not only do we see the church as bricks and mortar; we also misunderstand its character and its biblical purpose and mission.
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