{"id":249,"date":"2015-04-15T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:33:46","slug":"easter-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/easter-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"EASTER: FEEDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span class='et-dropcap'>B<\/span>ack in 1985 Christianity Today carried an article by Marshall Shelley entitled: <q>The Problem of Battered Pastors\u201d. He observed: \u201cthe modern preacher has to make as many visits as a country doctor, shake as many hands as a politician, prepare as many briefs as a lawyer, and see as many people as a specialist. He has to be as good an executive as the president of a University, as good a financier as a bank president; and in the midst of it all, he has to be so good a diplomat that he could umpire a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.<\/q><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Given the diversity of expectations of ministers what does the Bible teach us about their role?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup>15<\/sup> When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, \u201cSimon son of John, do you love me more than these?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYes, Lord; you know that I love you.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cFeed my lambs.\u201d <sup>16<\/sup> A second time he said to him, \u201cSimon son of John, do you love me?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYes, Lord; you know that I love you.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cTend my sheep.\u201d <sup>17<\/sup> He said to him the third time, \u201cSimon son of John, do you love me?\u201d Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d And he said to him, \u201cLord, you know everything; you know that I love you.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cFeed my sheep\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<footer><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u2013 <cite>John 21:15-17<\/cite><\/span><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong><span class=\"yellow\">Reflect<\/span><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; In John 21, Jesus challenges Peter three times: \u201cDo you love me&#8230;?\u201d At the Passover meal on the Thursday night Peter had said he would lay down his life for Jesus (John 13:37), yet three times he had denied him. Now the risen Jesus turns specifically to Peter and challenges him three times: \u201cDo you love me?\u201d Three times Peter says, \u201cYes, Lord\u201d. Three times Jesus commanded: \u201cFeed my sheep\u201d. With these words Jesus was telling Peter he was forgiven. At the same time he was commissioning him along with the other disciples, to be his apostles. It is not about making Peter\u2019s ministry pre-eminent, it is about reinstatement. Central to their ministry was the task of \u2018feeding his sheep\u2019. God\u2019s people are Jesus\u2019 sheep, not Peter\u2019s or the apostles\u2019 sheep. God\u2019s people are to be fed God\u2019s Word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Peter took Jesus\u2019 words to heart. Indeed, he echoes them in his First Letter where he writes: Be shepherds of God\u2019s flock (1 Peter 5:2). Peter passed on the commission and the challenge that, in principle, applies to all who would be teachers of God\u2019s people in every age \u2013 in church, in Sunday School, and in the home. Ministers, Bible study leaders, Sunday School and Scripture teachers, and parents, are charged with the task of instructing those in their care with the food of biblical truth and morality. They are to defend God\u2019s people from the ravages of false teaching, tend the young, care for the sick, and rescue the wandering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Feeding God\u2019s people with God\u2019s Word is front and center in the services (Ordinal) for the ordering of Anglican Church ministers. Archbishop Cranmer\u2019s 1552 Ordinal, reaffirmed in 1662, sets out clear job descriptions for all three ministries. None of these services focus on ritual or ceremony but rather each ministry primarily involves the proclamation of God\u2019s gospel and disciple-making, the protection of biblical truth and the care of those in need. All three ministries involve the feeding and protecting of God\u2019s people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u2018Who would be a minister?\u2019 we might ask. Some sheep resist the diet and many ignore it. Others can&#8217;t get enough of it. In 1 Peter 5:6-7 we read: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you. Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you. Yes, true ministers feel the burden of the ministry of God&#8217;s Word weighing heavily upon them &#8211; as do godly parents. However, we must be humble enough to share this burden with God himself, with Christ who is the Chief Shepherd, for he cares for each one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">How important it is that we pray for, support and encourage our ministers, Bible study leaders and parents. Especially we should pray that they are faithful in their teaching of God\u2019s Word and that their character and their lifestyle exemplifies what they teach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong><span class=\"yellow\">Prayer<\/span><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Heavenly Father, give us faith to receive your Word, understanding to know what it means, and the will to put it into practice; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP &#8211; adapted)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong><span class=\"yellow\">Further reading<\/span><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Read John 21:15-25.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ack in 1985 Christianity Today carried an article by Marshall Shelley entitled: The Problem of Battered Pastors\u201d. He observed: \u201cthe modern preacher has to make as many visits as a country doctor, shake as many hands as a politician, prepare as many briefs as a lawyer, and see as many people as a specialist. 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