Sheep Are Led
Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to
sheep, not to cattle.
It is especially important that Christian ministers know the law of the
leader—that he can lead others only as far as he himself has
gone....
The minister must experience what he would teach or he will find himself
in the impossible position of trying to drive sheep. For this reason he
should seek to cultivate his own heart before he attempts to preach to
the hearts of others....
If he tries to bring them into a heart knowledge of truth which he has
not actually experienced he will surely fail. In his frustration he may
attempt to drive them; and scarcely anything is so disheartening as the
sight of a vexed and confused shepherd using the lash on his bewildered
flock in a vain attempt to persuade them to go on beyond the point to
which he himself has attained....
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