“We live in a time in which your generation has grown up in a totally different environment from those of us who are older, who sought to remain knowledgeable of and true to over two thousand years of biblical understanding of the need to maintain the moral purity of the church by its shepherds and leadership.”
(Helen Louise Herndon) As most know, church members are considered flocks—flocks made up of shepherds and sheep, also called lambs. Shepherds are males who are teaching and ruling elders. They are called elders, as historically they were older rams….
Today, they can be both, that is, younger and older men. The lambs are rams and ewes, that is, male and female; and they too can be young or old. Where does that put me? For many years, I was simply an ewe in the flock; but today, I am definitely an elder or old ewe. I share this descriptive makeup of the local church wishing—as an elderly ewe—to address the young shepherds in the flock, that is, young male leaders. They are composed of pastors, ruling elders, and seminarians. They are all, for the most part, figuratively rams.
Original title: An Elderly Ewe in A Flock Addresses Young Shepherds and Rams
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