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The church needs shepherds to fulfill God’s design for the church.
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(1) A. Shepherds are needed to fill up what is lacking.
The mission of Titus was to “put what remained into order” or fill up what is lacking.
Part of that was to appoint elders or pastors, shepherds in every town.
There were many “church seeds” that were planted.
Today we would call them Bible studies.
This is usually where a church plant starts.
Church is “Ekklesia” : An assembly or called out ones.
There were assemblies of people in these towns.
These were house churches.
(1) A. Shepherds are needed to fill up what is lacking.
They often met in a wealthy Christian’s home so they had enough room.
They were lacking leadership.
There are two biblical offices in a local church Elders (Pastors)/Deacons.
A lot of emphasis is put on the office of elder in churches today.
We are one of the few who do not have elders.
I cannot find anywhere in scripture that shows those offices are different.
Many elders function in some ways as an unpaid pastor.
Only working part-time.
Don’t mistake the elders mentioned here for what we sometimes think of as elders - these are pastors.
We will call them elders/pastors/shepherd during our study of Titus.
There were more thing lacking than just leadership.
Titus was told to address those items as well.
However a lot of it was because of a lack of leadership.
Paul recognized God’s design for the local church was to be led by a Shepherd.
So appointing shepherds seems to be the first order of business for Titus.
Three things this helps us understand about elders/pastors/shepherds.
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We need shepherds.
This was the first thing Titus was told to do to fill up what is lacking.
Shepherds help fill up what is lacking in us.
We need to be shepherded.
Do you believe you need to be shepherded?
We have a tendency to feel self sufficient.
We might say we need a shepherd, but we don’t always live like we do.
God’s design for the church was to give us pastors or shepherds to guide us.
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We need shepherds.
That leads to the second thing we better understand because of this passage...
2. We need to be faithfully participating in a local church so we can be shepherded.
How can you be shepherded if you are putting yourself under the shepherding of a shepherd?
This is part of submitting and letting them do it with joy and not groaning.
Don’t be a difficult sheep.
This is no advantage to you!
3. Biblical shepherding doesn’t necessarily look like we think it does.
In order to understand what I’m saying, we need to pay attention to the reason we have pastors.
Think about the reason it was so important for these young churches to be appointed elders.
It was not for their physical needs.
It was for their spiritual needs.
Our church tradition often expects our pastors to care for our physical needs.
We should… because we are part of the church, not because we are your pastors.
Remember Acts 6… the office of deacon to help take care of physical needs to the pastors could focus on the spiritual needs of the flock.
When we see the office of pastor described, it is to spiritually shepherd the people.
The church as a whole is called to bear one another’s burdens.
As Paul tells Titus to appoint elders, the reasons are all spiritual.
We need to be careful what we are expecting our of our pastors.
They are watching out for souls (the spiritual lives) an entire flock of sheep.
Many of the things we want our pastors to be doing are the things the people of the church are supposed to be doing as the body of Christ!
(1) B. Shepherds are needed but they are not mysterious and are not different.
Pastors can be seen as...
Not like everyone else
God’s special man
Even set apart and above everyone else
That could be because of the way we view the role.
Rather than simply seeing it as a role in the body.
We see it as a special office that a man is called to.
I would like for us to take some time this morning and think about some things I’ve been pondering and learning for a while now.
It will help us better understand the role of elder, pastor, shepherd.
It will help us better understand the task Titus was given.
I want to do this by dispelling a myth we have been taught.
The myth that pastors are “called into ministry”.
This is idea is what sets pastors apart and shouldn’t.
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A biblical calling is a call to something other than pastoral ministry.
(We are all called.)
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A biblical calling is a call to something other than pastoral ministry.
(We are all called.)
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The Bible paints a picture different than we are used to.
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