Can you hear me now?

Friday: He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they recognize his voice. It is also not a matter of staying behind closed doors, that was the trouble with the second Eden, the first century church. To stay there is to die. God leads us out into the world, into the green pastures where we are nourished and fed by lives lived fully in the world, just not without Christ’s presence. Without Christ with you in the world, the wolves will get you. Without going into the world, you wither up and die. By going into the world with Christ, you live and are nourished.