I’ll never forget one of the last conversations I had with my grandpa. I was driving home from my church’s prayer meeting. I was tired. I was discouraged.
I had been pastoring for five months in Vermont. Our prayer meeting attendance had slowly dwindled. The excitement of having a new pastor ebbed, and summer activities and travel amped up. I’d decided to begin a “How To Study the Bible” series in the fall that we would go through on Wednesday evenings before our time of prayer. It was the first Bible study I’d created a graphic for. I advertised it for weeks and weeks. I sent out special e-mails. I studied and prepared and prayed.
Four people showed up.
As I drove home, I remembered that my grandpa had pastored faithfully for over 40 years in several small churches. Surely he had been discouraged about the number of people he preached to or taught a Bible study to. So I called him.
Here’s what he said that I will never forget: “God’s job is to worry about the number of sheep. Your job is to feed the sheep.”
What my grandpa taught me that night has echoed in my mind
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