# Gift of discernment, teaching, and shepherding

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 12
Date: June 7, 2024

And take your Bibles and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 12 tonight. First Corinthians chapter 12. We are going back to the subject of spiritual gifts. We left that subject for a bit on Sunday nights. We did Easter and a couple different things. But we are going back to it. We are going to cover these last three gifts tonight. We have covered 12 altogether. Next Sunday night, we will have a spiritual gifts test. I want you to take that, and we will draw conclusions on it next Sunday night. I want you to be here for that. Then we will go to a different subject, just finishing up on spiritual gifts.

Let me review a little bit. How many of you say, “I am a born-again Christian, I have trusted in Jesus Christ as my Savior?” Amen. Good, then you are gifted in some form or fashion with a spiritual gift, at least one, and maybe more. As you study these, it helps you identify, “Okay, I believe I am gifted in this area.”

Let me say this: just because you are not gifted in an area does not mean you cannot work at that gift. Sometimes you just identify, “I am very weak in that area right there.” The Holy Spirit of God may say, “You need to work a little bit. You are not gifted there, but you need to work at that.” Sometimes the chain is only as strong as its weakest length. You say, “My family needs me to grow in that area,” or of the church. All of us have that. In fact, the Lord has worked in my heart about some of that, and it has been very good for me. But let us get going, because we are going to try to cover three in one night, and that is a challenge. We have volleyball afterwards. I want to see Brother Bill spike a little bit. So let us hurry along here. We are just going to try to be brief on each one of these. Discernment. We are going to talk about discernment first, and then we will get to teaching and shepherding just very quickly—these three gifts.

We are in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and we are going to start in verse 7. Would you please stand? We do that to reverence the Word of God. It is worthy of that. In 1 Corinthians chapter 12, look in verse 7. The Bible there says, “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.” I think it is every man, every Christian, talking to the church there, to save people. “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits.” That is what we are going to focus on for just a little bit here, the gift of discernment tonight.

Would you pray with me that God would speak to our hearts and give us wisdom as we study these gifts? Father, Lord, thank you for organizing a little bit these gifts through your word and our mind, their hearts. Lord, help us to understand ourselves better, each other more, and how we are to fit into your kingdom and be used by you greatly. Grow us tonight through your word, and we will thank you for what you do. We ask for this in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

I think Peter was a man with the gift of discernment. Look over in Acts chapter 5. I think he is a great example of someone who has the gift of discernment. I am not trying to take away the leading of God in his life; it is very obvious. But I think he also had the gift of discernment. Look in Acts 5, and look at verse 3 very quickly tonight, 5:3. But Peter said, “Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, to keep back part of the price of the land?”

Now, many of you know the story. They sold their land. They made $300,000. That sounds like a lot, but in our area, that would be a good deal on a house nowadays. It is just crazy. Okay, they sold it for $500,000. That is probably more the way it is now at the end of time. They brought in $350,000. If anybody could do that, that would be a blessing. Anyway, they brought in $350,000 and said, “We sold our land and we got $350,000 for it.” They were pocketing $150,000. Later on, he says, “It is your money and do whatever you hold to with it, but you are lying about it.” And Peter, just like that—“Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?”

Look down at verse 11. Well, let me fill in in between. So, Ananias dropped. He lied, and he dropped dead. Really? Look at verse 11. “And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. And by the hands of the apostles there were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.” Let us jump down to verse 7. Ananias’ wife comes in. “And it was about the space of three hours after, as Peter told me, that his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much. And Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.”

Here is my point. Peter knew it instantly. He knew he was lying. You have agreed together, your husband and wife team, you are lying. He just knew it.

Look over in Acts chapter 8. There was a sorcerer named Simon that got saved. He saw the apostles lay their hands on someone, and the power of the Holy Spirit was given to that individual, and Simon said, “I want that power.” Now, it sounds like that could be a good desire to want to fight the Holy Ghost. But watch what Peter does about it. Look in verse 20, Acts 8:20. But Peter said unto him, “Thy money perish with thee.” Simon said, “I will give you money for that.” Peter said unto him, “Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.” Look down at verse 23. “For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”

Peter knew right off the bat what was going on with the guy. He has bitterness going on in his life. That is why he has been a sorcerer. God delivered him from that, but he has a whole lot of growth to be done. He said, you are just wanting this thing for greed and out of bitterness. But Peter, he perceived.

With this gift of discernment, they are very apt at picking up right away. The Lord used Peter to go over to Cornelius’ house, and Peter picked up very quickly on what was happening: God spreading the gospel over to the Gentiles. This man, Cornelius, is a good man. He wants to know the way of the truth. I am going to tell it to him. Someone with the gift of discernment, they just know what is going on in a person’s mind and heart.

Here is a definition of the spiritual gift of discernment: Gifted at quickly discerning whether a spirit or atmosphere is from God or Satan, which brings hypocrisy, worldliness, bitterness, rebellion, and others. They are just very quick at it. They are apt to know instantly. They could spot a hypocrite.

They might sometimes be called judgmental. That can be a weakness with them. They are not necessarily trying to go around and judge or just get it at it; they just know. They are good at quickly accessing the character of an individual, and usually they are accurate. They can spot a false movement a mile away. They are usually well-versed in the Bible. They can spot false doctrine often very quickly. They can smell bitterness a mile away. They can identify many times problems before they come to light. They are just gifted; they have a spirit of discernment about them.

Look over in 1 John chapter 4, 1 John, not St. John, but 1st John, chapter 4. This is very interesting. 1 John 4. Look in verse 1 there of the Bible. Next Sunday night, if you come with your sunglasses, we will be ready to go. I am teasing. Do not do that. But 1st John 4, look in verse 1. He says, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

Someone with the gift of discernment is very good at that. You say, “I am very weak in that area.” You might want to tap into something like that. The Bible tells us to try the spirits. They are good at helping put the right people in the right position. They are very good at when you are looking. I was talking to some in the parking lot, and I already had them in notes. I was talking to them in the parking line. They are going to take a vehicle to a mechanic tomorrow, and he said they have been using some other guy twice, and he has kind of overcharged them, so they are trying a new one. Someone with a gift of discernment is very quick: “Do not go to that person. Go to that person. Be careful with them.” They are gifted at that. They are gifted at maybe you choosing a contractor to do some work at your house. They are good at discerning. They can tell very quickly when looking for a church or for a leader in your life. They are very good at all these things. They help you to determine—here is the thing, just today—someone was mentioning about us maybe helping someone financially in benevolence, and we have a system we use for that in assistant form. They are going to try to get filled out and all this stuff. If you are working with something like that, you want someone that has a little bit of a gift of discernment: Is this person worthy of us investing some money, or are they just trying to take us? Or do they really genuinely need help and want to help, and they are willing to work? Someone with a gift of discernment is very helpful in counseling with people. A lot of times I feel like we just deal with surface issues, but if you can get below that, get the root issues, that is very important. Often a person with the gift of discernment is very helpful at that.

Now here are some weaknesses with someone with the gift of discernment: They can easily become judgmental. Because they are gifted in that area, if they are not careful—I will use this illustration, they will put on the badge, the policeman badge—and they walk around looking at everybody, and they can think they are God’s policemen of the world. They become judgmental, looking at everybody: “Are they a hypocrite or not?” You are not going to be happy like that, friend. You talk about finding a way to be miserable; let the devil put that badge on you. Do not go there with that.

Here is another weakness: Sometimes if they have that gift, their influence in people’s lives can be limited. You say, “Why is that?” Because acceptance is the optimum environment for growth. If you do not accept people—everybody has flaws—you can be limited in how much you can influence people for the Lord. Sometimes they can be limited. I will say this about every one of the gifts pretty much: where their weakness is, it is just pride. We are all prone to it. “I told you so. I told you they were a fraud.”

Here is the thing. You will see it sometimes. Someone with a gift of discernment is very good at it, but they get a little proud. What happens when you get proud? Pride blinds. “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Someone that is so good at discernment, like a neon flashing light, can’t you see that is a fraud? And they will fall flat on their face. They could not see it. Well, they got proud. We are all prone to pride. That is a weakness of someone with the gift of discernment.

Now we already covered the first gift. Look over Romans, if you would please. Romans chapter 12, very quickly here. Let us look at another gift. We are trying to cover the gift of discernment and the gift of teaching. The gift of teaching. It just popped in my mind, and it is a good fault, but you might say, “Well, I am a lady and I am never going to teach the Sunday school class,” or even a man. Hey, every mom needs to have somewhat the gift of teaching. Dads too. These gifts can be used in so many different ways. Look at Romans 12. Look in verse 6. He says, “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministry; Or he that teacheth, on teaching.”

What is the definition of someone who is gifted in this area of teaching? One that has the ability to help others learn truths from the Word of God. Now, I emphasize, I emphasize: help others learn truth. You say, “Man, they have the ability to just expound an exeatheed.” Well, all right, that may be good or bad. That really is not the thing we are looking at. Are other people learning? You ever sit in a class and you leave that class and say, “Man, that is the smartest person in the world,” but did you learn anything? Well, no, they are smart; they do not have the gift of teaching.

Someone that has a gift of teaching is able to transfer knowledge and information from this person to the other. When they leave, they learn something. They take it home with them. I had a Bible college teacher, very intelligent. He knew church history better than we know the back of our hand. I know the back of my hand pretty good; I can identify that one anywhere. But he was smart, but I will be honest with it, I did not learn much in his classes. He could spill off some information and some facts and do it out of his head, and you are like, “Wow.” But he was not good at transferring knowledge from one person. That is a good teacher. When you leave, you learn something. You retain at least something. It is so very important teaching.

Let me say there is a difference in teaching and preaching. All good preaching has some teaching in it, and all good teaching has some preaching in it, but there is a difference. Someone that has a gift of teaching: When you listen to them, you learn. They are good at organizing truth so as to make it easy to learn. They are focused on others being knowledgeable in the Word of God. This is a wonderful verse, 2 Timothy 2: “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” They get it so much that they are able to take it and to give it to somebody else. Now that is a good teacher. A good teacher is not one that says, “Wow, blah, blah, blah, wow, wow, wow. Look at them. They are amazing,” but you do not learn anything. No, no, no, no, no. Good teachers: you transfer knowledge to them, and they are able to transfer it to someone else. That is a good teacher. Someone gifted with this gift of teaching is very good at it. Characteristics: They enjoy teaching. They are good at conveying truth so it is clearly understood. When they learn a truth, they enjoy sharing it with others. They do not mind repeating truth to ensure it is retained. Not trying to impress or try to teach. See?

The importance of the gift. Look over in Matthew 28. You know this, Matthew 28:19 and 20. It is probably the most quoted time of the Great Commission. The Great Commission is mentioned five times in the Bible. This is probably the most common mention. Notice how the Bible words it. It words it differently over in Mark. But look how he words it over here in Matthew 28:19 and 20. He says there, “Go ye therefore and what?” What is the next word? Now wait a second. Is this limited to individuals? Who is to do this command? The church, if you get real specific. If you are saved, you are a part of the church. So it is all of us. All of us in some capacity are called to be teachers. “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Amen.

Everybody in some ways ought to work at being a teacher, at least if nothing else, to give the gospel. I cannot assure somebody, make sure they are going to get saved, but I ought to be able to teach them what it means to be saved and not be saved, how to get saved. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. I am to give that to them. It is up to them what they do with it. Everybody ought to have some way of using this gift of teaching, at least to share the gospel.

These gifts remind me of parenting. Parents, we sometimes pass the buck. “Well, it is the job of the schools,” or “It is the job of the church.” No, primarily it is the job of the parents to teach. We may get a good school or someone to assist us, Sunday school teachers and all, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it is the parent’s job. It is our job to teach our children. Deuteronomy speaks of that. These gifts are so very important in the home. We ought to be trying to teach those around us the truths of the Word of God, whether it be at work or wherever we can. Do not try to force it on anybody. Do not cast your pearls before swine lest they turn and rend you. Do not mean you go around preaching to everybody, “Let me teach you in the Word of God,” and they are like, “Oh, brother.” But if I have the opportunity, lovingly, and they are interested, hey.

Teaching is mentioned often in the New Testament. I was going to read for you some verses; we are not going to do it today. Jesus was a teacher. Acts 1:1: “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach.” By the way, the order of that one is so very important. Jesus did it and then he taught it. You are not going to be a very effective teacher unless you do and then teach. Some people just want to teach but not do. Jesus did and then he taught. That is so very important. A pastor somewhat ought to be a teacher. 1 Timothy 3:2: “A bishop must then be apt to teach.” In our day and time, so many Christians are falling for false doctrines because they have not been taught, and they do not have the hunger for the Word of God, but they do not have good teachers teaching them. Sunday school is becoming a little bit of a past thing, and that is a sad thing because that is where a lot of teaching of the Word of God goes on. America is falling prey to a lot of false doctrine sometimes because they go to church once or twice a month, but they never go to Sunday school. That is a great place to learn the Bible, in Sunday school and in church. Sunday school is such a great way to do it.

The weakness here: 1 Corinthians 8:1 says this little phrase: “Knowledge puffeth up.” If you are not careful, maybe you are gifted a little bit with teaching. I say this about every gift: it is easy to get puffed up proud, and that is a very sad thing—become a know-it-all. People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care, right? I was talking to a pastor friend of mine, who is older or wiser or more experienced than I, and we were talking about how sometimes someone is gifted at teaching, but they never build relationships with people. They are very limited. People do not care if you are the smartest man in the world if they do not know you really love them. They are going to find knowledgeable people all over the Internet in our day and time. But building relationships is very important and very vital. Sometimes the weakness is just becoming a little proud.

This could be another weakness: They are teaching what people want to hear. Nowadays, this is very popular with TV preachers and radio—not all of them, some are good. But the Bible does talk about it. Let me read it for you: Second Timothy 4:3-4. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.” “Tickle my ear, teacher. Tell me what I want to hear, teacher.” It is very easy in our day and time; you can go on the Internet and find out pretty much anything you want to hear from somebody gifted in that subject. But a teacher must be very careful that they are willing to teach the whole counsel of the Word of God.

This could be a weakness of someone gifted with the gift of teaching: They have a head knowledge but not a heart knowledge. The Bible is not just for information; it is for transformation. There are scholars that teach at places like Princeton or Yale or Harvard, and they know their Bible pretty well sometimes, but they are not living any of it. That is not going to change my life. It is not for information; it is for transformation. People with the gift of teaching must use it. They use it in so many different ways. Teach your children the Bible. Home devotions with your family is so very important. Start a Bible study at work. I believe in many ways that is an area that Christianity in America is not tapping into. People are going to be there eight, ten hours a day sometimes. Tap into that. Have a Bible study there, if God leads. Teach every child. Start a neighborhood Bible club, teaching the Bible. Get involved in Sunday school. Write a book that teaches the Bible. Everywhere you go, teach the gospel everywhere you can.

This is a sad thing. We are going to move on to the next gift here real quickly. They say this is a couple years old, and I checked again recently, and it still bears true. They say about 70% of Americans believe there are many ways to have it. That is the sad thing. The early church had a lot of persecution. Rome was not against having religion; Rome was polytheistic, many gods. But the issue was when the early church said, “Hey, Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by Jesus.’” While they were preaching in Acts 4, he said, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). That is where society got mad. Because you are saying Jesus is the only way, so you are saying we are going to hell. We will be nice about it, but that is just the truth. I had the privilege of witnessing to someone out of town the other day, and I said, “Either Jesus is the only way, or he is a liar,” because Jesus said, “I am the way.” People need to be taught that. People are not hearing that taught, and it is so vital that we use this gift of teaching anywhere and everywhere we can, teaching people the truth: Jesus is the only way. This gift of teaching is just vital.

Look over one more gift tonight. Look over in Ephesians chapter 4. Are you all still with me out there tonight? Amen. Good. I appreciate y’all sticking with me. It is tough to get three gifts in. I appreciate Brother Adam saying this a couple weeks ago. He listened to all these podcasts and everything. He said he listened to one where they covered one gift a sermon, and he got a little tired of one. So he said, “I like it; you are covering three.” I appreciate it. Brother Adam is going to get a raise, amen. We are trying to cover three in one service; that is tough to do. We will do our best. Ephesians 4. Look in verse 11, please. Verse 11: “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.”

That word pastor, the Greek word there is poimen, meaning shepherding or a shepherd. It is 16 times in the New Testament, which can be 17 times in the New Testament. This is the only time it is translated pastor; 16 times it is translated shepherd. There is an office of a shepherd or a bishop or a pastor of a New Testament church, but sometimes the Bible is just talking about this thing of shepherding. A pastor ought to at least somewhat be gifted or working very hard at shepherding. As an effective pastor, he needs to have some of this gift of shepherding in him. But we are not necessarily talking about a pastor per se, just that, but just a shepherd.

What is a definition of it? One who is gifted at caring for a group of people like a shepherd would for a flock of sheep. Edgar Hagali, the missionary, has preached at our church three or four times over the years. He grew up in Lebanon, and a missionary came through, and he went to Sunday school, a little Vacation Bible School type thing. He heard the missionary when his little boy talked about a shepherd: Jesus is a good shepherd, the great shepherd, the chief shepherd. Hagali says there was a little boy who did not understand the Bible, but he understood what a shepherd was because he grew up in Lebanon. Shepherds are all over the place. He said he understood that terminology. He said shepherds are amazing. He was saying how the shepherd knows each one of their sheep. Typically, those shepherds in Lebanon back in the day could tell you about the birth pretty much of each sheep. He said, “I can really relate to that: Jesus as a shepherd.” That really drew him to Jesus Christ; he was just a boy.

Some people have the gift of shepherding. They really know that they are good at building relationships very quickly with people in the flock. They have this term we use—and it is not always good in education, but this term the government uses a lot of times—“No one left behind.” The shepherd truly has that mentality. They do not want anyone to be left behind. They see the whole group.

Here are some attributes of someone gifted with shepherding: They see a group as in need of a leader for the growth, care, and protection. I am not saying I am a good shepherd, but I have to be careful. We were away, and I went to church on Wednesday night, and I had to be careful. I do not want to be critical because I see those people in that church, and they need a shepherd, and they had a shepherd, and I wanted to encourage them all I could, but I did not want to be critical. I am appalled by that because I just see those people; they need a shepherd. I tend to focus in on that, maybe just from all the years of it.

Someone with attributes of a shepherd can relate to many people. They are usually a peacemaker and diplomatic. They see the unity of the flock is very important. They will go after a runaway sheep. They will lead the 99 and go after the one. Jesus is a good shepherd, amen. They are willing to lead by example. They are usually very patient and people-centered. They want to protect the flock. They are willing to provide boundaries for the protection of the flock. They are very bothered by one person trying to exalt themselves and hurt others in the process. I do not like that. They enjoy seeing those who are doing good.

Now, here is the weakness of someone gifted with the gift of shepherding. I have said this about every one of them tonight, pretty much all of them. They can get proud because people are looking to them. It is amazing to me the difference in people when they are on the top and when they are on the bottom. It is sad. Sometimes you see someone get a position, and it changes them. It is sad. Sometimes people say, “Well, they just cannot handle too many positions because it changes them.” That can be a weakness of a shepherd who can be too protective of their sheep.

By the way, it is always important to remember: they are not your sheep, not my sheep—they are the Lord’s sheep. He has just allowed us to be a shepherd over them. I think of a young lady in the bus ministry when we were in college. She had a younger girl coming with her; she was a bus worker in Bible college. She just took that one sheep and took her up underneath her wing and would not let her build relationships with anyone else. That hurt that sheep. Eventually, that sheep and that one lady worker had a little falling out, and she left. If she had let her kind of build relationships with everybody else, she would still be in there even if that relationship got a little hurt. A shepherd can keep everyone to themselves, and if they are not careful, it can be cliquish, because we never want that. That could be a weakness there: sometimes taking all the responsibility.

I think of Paul. I think Paul was gifted with the gift of shepherding, care of the churches and so on. He was very good at it. But maybe his weakness was he took too much on himself. Remember, he just said, “I just got to go to Jerusalem. I got to get to Jerusalem.” By the way, he was out of the will of God by going to Jerusalem. It was very clear. People who were full of the Spirit said, “God has told me, do not you go there.” But Paul said, “I want to go there so I can have some fruit there.” Peter was already there, and others—the apostles, James, the pastor of the church there. But Paul said, “Man, I’ve got to go there.” It is God’s flock, and God can work in their lives. But this thing of shepherding is such an important gift.

Every parent—this is a sad thing—every parent needs to have shepherding, shepherding their children. It is sad how many parents in our day and time will not shepherd their children. You ever see a teenage girl, and you are like, “Where in the world is her dad letting her dress like that?” Well, that dad is not willing to be a shepherd. Or the mom. It is so important. Parents, your children need a parent to shepherd those children. It is so vital. America, I think, is hurting because of the lack of shepherds, pastors, in the churches across America. Every church needs many shepherds if that church is going to grow.

Let me just list a couple of things in our church: the bus ministry. Praise the Lord for people that are in our bus ministry, shepherding those children. The jail ministry—it has been a great addition to our church. Praise the Lord for those who just say, “I want to shepherd that ministry,” doing a great job with them. Sunday school class teachers—that is vital—shepherding their class. The schools, our other county Christian school; we have two teachers in the public school shepherding their classes there. Nursing home ministry—you go there, you are shepherding that flock there, and you know those people there. Usually, I have witnessed that one was in a car wreck, and this one has lost their wife, and they are grieving, and they are shepherding that nursing home. It is so very important. We do not have this, but it would be great one day: We have Bible clubs in different public schools of our area. That would be a great thing. Bible studies at work—we have mentioned that already. Masters Club on Wednesday night. Children’s churches and primary church and junior church. It just can go on and go on. People are just shepherding; they are taking care of a group of people in its simplest form.

My goal was to be done about 7 o’clock. We covered three gifts at 7 o’clock. What about that? Brother Johanette said, “Amen, we are going to get out of here.” He is going to go eat somewhere tonight. I am teasing. Amen. Amen. Amen. Patty is cooking; we are going to their house. Amen.

Years ago, we had a lady in our church—this group of people before this building for the most part, so it is, you know, 18 years ago, whatever—her name was Betty Gammon. At that stage of our church, we had maybe five, six, seven widows and older ladies. Betty Gammon was never given a title. By the way, a shepherd is not concerned about a title; he is concerned about the flock. Betty Gammon never had a title. She never taught a class or anything like that in our church, but she kind of mothered or shepherded those little ladies in our church. She kept up with them. If they needed a ride to church or they had a doctor’s appointment or anything, she knew. She was never given a title, but she shepherded the older ladies in our church years ago. She was not trying to pull everybody to her and “look at me” and all that. She was a good, godly lady; she was a widow herself. She loved on those ladies. She took care of them. She was a shepherd to them, and she was a valuable asset to our church. I know she was kind of a shepherd to those older ladies, and I was grateful for it. Every church needs people just shepherding. They are gifted at it; they are just wired that way. God uses those people to shepherd their little flock for the Lord, wherever God has them, trying to make sure those people are cared for.

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