Jesus is the good Shepherd who laid down his live for the sheep (John 10:11). He is sent to earth to save God’s people (Matthew 1:21). Elders or overseers in the church have to watch the flock and be shepherds of the church that Jesus bought with his own blood (Acts 20:28). The overseers have to do it willingly, not because they are forced to do it (1 Peter 5:2–4).
1 Moïse faisait paître le troupeau de Jéthro, son beau-père, sacrificateur de Madian; et il mena le troupeau derrière le désert, et vint à la montagne de Dieu, à Horeb.