What might happen if we saw the ordinary places of our daily life as pastures where we’ve been called to shepherd? What if we saw our co-workers, our family, our friends, customers, patients, and clients as the flock we’ve been called to know, feed, lead, and protect?
One thing is for sure, we would not be alone in this work. The Spirit of God is already in these places—perhaps uninvited, unnoticed, unseen, sometimes even unwelcome—but God’s invitation is not only to embrace what the Spirit does for us and in us, but to participate with God in what he wants to do for the world through us as his priestly shepherds. Such is the goal of this curriculum.
May God use us, the priesthood of all believers, to shepherd his flock—tending and caring for the sheep in our pastures by leading them to the Great Shepherd, and, by his Spirit, bearing the fruit of heaven in the spaces of our daily lives.
This curriculum was designed to be used by small groups as an introduction to shepherding. Over the course of 4 activity-based sessions, participants will explore the primary attributes of a shepherd (i.e., know, feed, lead, and protect) and be prompted to consider what intentional shepherding might look like in their daily spaces.
This curriculum was designed to be used by a small group of people who have each committed to shepherding a specific person within their daily space over the course of four months. This guide is built primarily around monthly group discussion to process the challenges of shepherding as well as offer a space for reflection and creative inspiration. This booklet also overs journaling pages for between sessions.
Print on legal size paper (8.5″x14″), short-edge binding, with saddle fold
Print on legal size paper (8.5″x14″), short-edge binding, with saddle fold