The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 1 Peter 5:1-3
The words that we read here are of a mature Simon Peter, half a lifetime away from that dreadful night that he claimed he didn’t know the Savior. As the first called by Christ and an eyewitness to the entirety of Christ’s ministry he provides an insight perhaps unparalled in the Holy Scriptures.
Peter’s exhortation to the ministry of the Church is brief but abundant in content. The concepts of spiritual oversight, teaching by example and serving without pay are central to our understanding. Please pray for the ministry as they prepare to meet in the days following our General Conference that they may come to a greater understanding of the work they are called to in the coming year.
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