The Truth Necessary for Community (Matthew 18:15-20)

This thickheaded shepherd is missing one sheep. He’s got 99 other sheep.

What does he do?

Does he write off the one lost sheep on his tax returns?

Does he casually post on other people’s Facebook page, “All sheep matter?” I mean, he’s got 99 well-behaved sheep, ones that haven’t given him heartache. Why risk losing anymore by going out hunting the one wayward sheep?

Who knows why he does it? But he leaves the 99, looking with knowing, loving eyes for that one inveterate, wandering little sheep—as a way of saying that this one is worth risking all the rest.

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