Second of Three Wed. Night Discussions (Smell Like Sheep)

Lynn’s PET scan was clear – Remission! Praise God! That’s what we’ve been praying for and we will keep on praying for Lynn and his family. We are preparing for Lynn. Our shepherds and leaders are reading his books, watching his training videos and meeting for Wednesday night discussion and prayer. Tonight we finished the 2nd of 3 Wednesday nights. The discussions are going great! Debbie and Becky are our prayer coordinators – you ought to see the prayer room they prepared – it’s called “Mary’s Upper Room”. They named it after Mary Dunford – our dear friend who resides in heaven. Great things are happening at Norway Avenue Church – we’re praying the Psalms and preparing for what God is going to say through Lynn. Visit Lynn Anderson’s Mentoring Network – Below is an excerpt from Lynn’s They Smell Like Sheep (Vol. 2) Lynn wrote “The flock you shepherd deserves—and desperately needs—a shepherd with a heart for the Word of God. So hungering to know and teach God’s Word is a top priority for shepherds.

Faithful shepherds feed on the Word, because as Frak says, “Even when we ‘know it,’ we still ‘need it.’ ”  Peter says that the point in studying the Bible isn’t always to learn something new. More often it is to remind us of something old.

More importantly, reading the Bible leads us repeatedly into an encounter with the awesome God!

The shepherd with a heart for the Word uses the Bible to lead his or her flock to encounter the Sovereign One. He longs to help them find light for the journey, to help them manage the day-to-day ethical, moral, and relational challenges of life. He knows that only God’s Word supplies a compass able to show people the way in a world of bewildering questions, unbearable sufferings, and profound mysteries, a world without maps explaining how to make it through life’s insoluble problems.

Good shepherds have the joy—and the responsibility—to know and to teach the Word.”