"Feeding Sheep"

Friday, November 4, 2016

In John 21:17, Jesus uses the question, "Do you love Me?" to remind us of the great commandment to love God with everything that is in us. He uses the imperative; "Feed My sheep!" to focus our attention on the second great commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. As you know, Jesus said that these two commandments summarized the Law and the Prophets. In the context of the Gospels, the risen Savior's dialogue with Peter (before the other disciples) in this passage is an appropriate closure to His ministry in the Gospel of John. It is, likewise, a call to every believer to ministry, to the specific ministry of loving and worshiping Jesus and of ministering to His sheep.

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