Lutheran Confessions

A Pastoral Letter To My Little Church

On lost sheep

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Clint Schnekloth
Aug 14, 2022
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I keep thinking about Jesus’ parable of the lost sheep (Matthew 18:10-14). In it the burden of finding the single lost sheep falls on the shepherd. The other 99 presumably continue doing herd-like things until the shepherd returns, and then it is the shepherd (again, not the other sheep) who rejoice at the one found and returned.

The pandemic essentially…

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