Sheep are an interesting breed… to say the least. I’ve seen a meme circling around lately on social media of a farmer who works hard to pull one of his sheep out of a muddy ditch. The farmer struggles and strains to push the stuck sheep out of the ditch and back to safety. Eventually the sheep is free and back on the dry flat land. Not two seconds later do we see the sheep turn around and leap back into the ditch.

The local church can be about a lot of different things - but before he ascended into heaven Jesus was clear about the one thing that every church must be about. In Matthew 28:19-20b we read, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”