12.23- Jesus calls us out.

 12.23-

Jesus calls us out.

I have heard the phrase so often that a leader is someone who calls people out to be all they can be.  That is the kind of leader that Jesus is.  He calls out His sheep and they go into new places for new pasture and new growth. He doesn't leave them inside the stall or the fold, because nutrition and growth requires movement and leadership into new things.

He goes before us.

He is beside us and even sent His Spirit to live inside us.

 A great leader always is doing or has done many times what He asks us to do.  He goes before us.  There is not a difficult thing that humans go through that He has not gone through.

John 10.

3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep listen to his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he puts all his own sheep outside, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 However, a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 Jesus told them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what the things which He was saying to them [a]meant.