Preaching from the digital Pulpit

Hi, I’m Pastor Lucas. Welcome to 7 Minutes.   What would you say about our time—do we have a lack or an excess of “shepherds” willing to guide people in their spiritual journey? I think we know the answer: we have a lot. More than we know what to do with. But then we turn to the Gospel for this coming Sunday, Matthew 9 (I encourage you to read it in your Bible). Jesus looks at the people as “sheep without a shepherd.” Jesus is going around, teaching and healing. In that context He feels compassion for the people who are following Him. And as far as we know, their situation was not that different from ours today—except they didn’t have YouTube or the internet to spread ideas. But they did have plenty of religious leaders. Still, in a time with no lack of spiritual voices, Jesus looks at the crowd and still sees the as ‘sheep without a shepherd’. How so?  The main reason is that much of the teaching of the time was disconnected from the original—disconnected from the Word ...