In my book “When Sheep Bite,” I not only wrote about biting sheep, but I also wrote about wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, and wolves who aren’t trying to hide themselves at all!
Watch the video here.
I have a related blog post that may interest you as well: When Shepherds and Sheep Talk. And you can check out more of this podcast I interview I did here.
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[music] Welcome to the Craig T. Owens Audio Blog with Craig's blog posts in audio format to go. Craig's new book, When Sheet Bite, is available now at CraigTowens.com. Today's audio blog is the audio of a video I shared today. If you would like to watch the video or if you'd like to check out some related sources, take a look at the show notes. [music] We delineated Craig between sheep and a wolf. Obviously, if you treat a wolf like a sheep, you're in trouble. If you treat a sheep like a wolf, you're really maybe creating a lifelong... They will never look at a church again or a pastor again the same way. How do you know the difference? Again, if you treat one like the other, you miss the paradigm altogether and you're actually doing where harm or being harmed unnecessarily. How do you know the difference between a wolf and a sheep? Well, I have a whole chapter in the book really pointing out about wolves because I think that that is an important thing because you've got to use the right tool in the right setting. There's this gentle strength to rescue a sheep, but then there's also just the strength to drive away the wolf that is there. I look at in the Bible how Paul said to Timothy, "Here's some guys you need to watch out for. They've done me a lot of harm, and so you need to be on your guard for this." Same thing with John. He talked about a guy, dietary fees, that was also causing some problems. They named names and they called them out. I think that what we pick up from that is that the first thing that you see with the wolves is they are really wanting to create their own following. We use the phrase a lot, "alone wolf," but as I did some research, I found out that the only time a wolf is a lone wolf is when it wants to start its own pack. Otherwise, they run, they stay together in the group. What I usually watch for is those people that come in. We use the phrase the wolf in sheep's clothing. They come in usually saying, "Hey, Pastor, I want to be your friend. I want to be here. I've got a lot of experience and I'm going to lend my support to you. I'm going to start this ministry." Hold on, I don't even know you yet and you're wanting to start a ministry. When they start talking in those kind of terms and a lot of, "I, me, and my," then that's something that the feelers really have to go up. I think that I might be dealing with a wolf here. Craig's new book, "When Sheep Bite," is available now. To order, go to CraigTowens.com. ♪♪
