Queries:

What does being a “disciple” mean to you today?

How do you see yourself already living out the work YOU, as a unique person, are being empowered to do?

How might you become more and more yourself in your life, relationships, community? How can your faith and faith community help support that?

How does it feel to imagine Jesus rooting for you, having your back, being with you always, even to the end of the age?

Query:

How do I demonstrate God’s love to individuals or people with whom I am in deep disagreement?

Queries:

Where is Jesus?

What enables you to find peace in turmoil?

What are your signs and/or experiences of Spirit?

Queries:

What is most striking, challenging, or inspiring to me in today’s scripture?

What does my spiritual community seem to prioritize?

Where am I feeling a sense of urgency?

Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”

“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

So again Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.”