SHEPHERD
FROM ONE DEGREE OF GLORY TO ANOTHER
2 Corinthians 3:18
HOW CAN WE SHEPHERD OUR FLOCK FROM ONE DEGREE OF GLORY TO ANOTHER?
1. Godly Assessment: KNOW YOUR FLOCK
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds
Proverbs 27:23
THE HEART OF GODLY ASSESSMENT
ASK HEART REVEALING QUESTIONS
The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Prov 20:5
QUICK TO LISTEN, SLOW TO SPEAK
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame…The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.”
Proverbs 18:13, 17
TOOLS FOR GODLY ASSESSMENT
KNOW THE ROOT: FRUIT TO ROOT TOOL
This tool helps us to ask strategic heart-revealing questions to gain insight into the root heart issue. It then guides us in discerning what root idolatries have settled in the heart and captured the imagination.
KNOW THE RISK: SOS
This tool gives three helpful categories (severity, ownership and support) to discern the risk of one’s situation. It then helps us determine the appropriate level of care and gives clear avenues to access this care.
2. Godly COUNSEL: SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 4:15–16
THE HEART OF GODLY COUNSEL
SPEAK TRUTH, BUT BUILD UP
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. … Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 4:25, 29
TAILOR YOUR CARE
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
TOOLS FOR GODLY COUNSEL
PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL: Fruit to Root ToOL
This tool goes beyond godly assessment. The right side of the tool shows the gospel truths that must be treasured and seen for true change in our thoughts and actions. It traces major languages of the atonement to show us how the gospel is the answer.