Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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In calling himself the Good Shepherd, Jesus sets up a way for his followers to contrast him with those who don’t have to care about them.
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Tradition uses the good shepherd as a comforting image of Jesus, but its power is in contrast—between Jesus and those who hate him.
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Jesus’s teaching on the Good Shepherd comes in the midst of Easter resurrection stories — and the people who are afraid of him.
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The challenge of this resurrection appearance is that we get caught up in the material and not in the experience of our own belief.