The 21st century church must deal with what has become the scattered sheep syndrome. The scattering of the sheep has caused major damage to the ecclesia, which is the church. Without plausible intervention, the lasting effects of the scattered sheep syndrome will be devastating to the churches continued existence and progression.

Have you ever been lost and wanted someone to help you find your way? Or, were you too stubborn to admit you were lost? More people are lost than will admit it. The world is full of them. They need a guide to help them find direction. That is what this book is about We are all like sheep and need a shepherd to guide us. In this book, Sheep Without a Shepherd, author, Jimmie L. Chapman introduces you to the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Earthly leaders will fail but Jesus never fails. This book may also help you to realize you are lost, like a sheep. It will help you to find the Good Shepherd who, alone, can save you. Read this book. It will point you to God's word. God's word is like a GPS instrument. In it, you will find yourself. It will give your exact location in relation to where you really are and where you should be. And, it will point you to Jesus, who gave his life that you might be saved and give you directions on how to find him.

The Sheep and Goat Handbook includes presentations made at the International Stockrnen 's School, January 2-6, 1983. The faculty members of the School who authored this third volume of the Handbook, along with books on Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, and Horses, are scholars, stockrnen, and agribusiness leaders with national and international reputations. The papers are a mixture of tried and true technology and practices with new concepts from the latest research results of experiments in all parts of the world. Relevant information and concepts from many related disciplines are included.

The Gospel of John would seem to be both the “spiritual Gospel” and a Gospel that promotes Christian mission. Some interpreters, however, have found John to be the product of a sectarian community that promotes a very narrow view of Christian mission and advocates neither love of neighbor nor love of enemy. In this book for both the academy and the church, Michael Gorman argues that John has a profound spirituality that is robustly missional, and that it can be summarized in the paradoxical phrase “Abide and go,” from John 15. Disciples participate in the divine love and life, and therefore in the life-giving mission of God manifested in the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus. As God’s children, disciples become more and more like this missional God as they become like his Son by the work of the Spirit. This spirituality, argues Gorman, can be called missional theosis.

An alternative understanding of apocalyptic eschatology in the Gospel of Matthew Matthew’s eschatological imageries of judgment are often identified as apocalyptic and referred to as Matthew’s apocalyptic discourses. In this volume Elekosi F. Lafitaga reexamines Matthew’s vision of the sheep and goats in the judgment of the nations, which are often interpreted as metaphors for the saved and the condemned. Lafitaga views these images in the wider context of the rhetoric of apocalyptic communication stretching back to Matthew 3. This broader context reveals that the vision of Matthew 25 serves to exhort Israel in the here and now according to the torah, with salvation for Israel involving an indispensable responsibility to love and serve humanity. Central to Lafitaga’s analysis is the highly probable scenario that the material in Matthew is dependent on the Book of Dreams (1 Enoch 83–90).