Bradley Stoke Evangelical Church

Now the shepherd in in in The Middle East, we talk about pastures, don't we? We sing that song of lead me to pastures. And, in this country, we probably have in our minds, a massive green paddock with lush green grass that the shepherd opens up again, and all the sheep flock into it, and he says, behold the lovely pasture. But actually, in The Middle East, it's very barren at times, and the role of the shepherd is to lead the sheep day by day, hour by hour to the next tiny bit of goodness that's growing, probably at the bottom of the rocks where the rain falls on the rocks and then goes in, and and the shepherd's there looking for that that pasture.