"Sheep"

Church, just because the Bible refers to you as "sheep" doesn't mean you have to be as dumb as one - it is a metaphor...

According to Wikipedia, "A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile."

So now, you must ask yourself, at what "point of comparison" am I like a sheep? or at what "point of comparison" does God want me to be like sheep?

You see, the thing is, you're not really sheep.  So you better find out what that means and stop walking around like you have to obey everything the leadership of your particular organization says and does because in the end, you are responsible for being a part of it.

Stop acting like you have no choice.

You have mind.  You have will.  Study to show your self approved.

Think about it.

Thank you C.S. Lewis

 I first read C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" when I was 17 and it had a tremendous impact on me.  I read it and re-read it.  The logic was so pure.  I was already following Christ but had many questions.  Lewis fed my mind and strengthened my faith.

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.