{"id":3293,"date":"2024-07-02T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:00:22","slug":"i-am-against-the-shepherds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3293","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am against the shepherds.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2839\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood.jpg 415w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When someone is vulnerable, they are susceptible to attack or injury. Whenever power is used in a way that wounds the vulnerable, that exploits trust; abuse has occurred.\u00a0 &#8211;Diane Langberg, Ph.D @DianeLangberg on X (X.com) June 25, 2024\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DianeLangberg\/status\/1805632267827437648\">Vulnerable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"en-ESV-21318\" class=\"text Ezek-34-4\">The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"text Ezek-34-5 psuedo-selection\"><em>So they were scattered&#8230;.<span id=\"en-ESV-21322\" class=\"text Ezek-34-8 psuedo-selection\">As I live, declares the Lord\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">God<\/span>, surely because\u00a0my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-21323\" class=\"text Ezek-34-9\">therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"text Ezek-34-10 psuedo-selection\"><em>Thus says the Lord\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">God<\/span>, Behold, I am against the shepherds.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ez. 34: 4-5a; 8-10a<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When someone is vulnerable,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}