Sermon: John 1 The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd
John 10:1-30
Within a matter of weeks we shall be caught up in the
machinery of a General Election. It will not in the main
be about policies - the policies of the two major parties
do not seem to be so different - it will be about people.
Personalities. John major and Tony Blair. And the
personality that appeals most to the public - that can
convey the most appealing persona will likely win.
Sad though it may be today’s politics is about leaders.
Not so much their principles as their charisma. Their
colour. That is why political parties spend so much of
their resources choosing the right leader and ironing out
his or her imperfections to make them attractive to the
electorate. To us the people.
In a sense nothing has changed. The world has always
looked for leaders. Men have followed men from time
immemorial. They have looked for someone who would
lead them out to a better life. A better world. A world
of liberty equality and fraternity. It was the hope of the
French revolutionaries. It has always been the human
hope.
Certainly it was so in Jesus day. Palestine was alive
with would be leaders. The previous couple of centuries
had seen an upsurge of would be saviours. Selfappointed
messiahs who would free the Jewish people
from the domination of Rome. They had come as
leaders have come throughout history with their zeal
and fanaticism. With their philosophy of freedom and
impossible promises to meet the hopes and ambitions of
the people. To bring the utopia that the human spirit
hungers for. And fuelled by these dreams they had led
the people into bloody revolution that had
remorselessly led to defeat and destruction and death.
They failed. Why? Well no doubt for many reasons but
one of the principle reasons was that they came with the
wrong agenda the wrong goals. They were, as leaders
inevitably are, fuelled more by their own self interest,
their own ambitions their own distorted agendas than
they are with the well-being and interests of the people.
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Hi there - I am a member of Greenview and have been for over 20 years. For a number of these years I functioned as an elder, however, indifferent health forced me to take more of a back seat. I see this as an opportunity to do a little writing, often focussing on issues that are a matter of evangelical debate today. Naturally the views expressed are my own and may not reflect the views of the elders or church at large, though differences are likely to be in the detail and not the substance.
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