Stories of Christ: Story 30

The Good Shepherd

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Dec 4

Good Shepherd and Other Sheep

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Know Christ's Voice

NT 40

John 10:1-18

Good Shepherd

We must listen to the shepherds voice.

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I have seen lambs lost in a moving herd of sheep. A great chorus of voices rises from the herd, but each lamb listens for the one voice that can guide it. The Savior used this ageless example in the allegory of the Good Shepherd. "The sheep hear his voice: ... and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, ... for they know not the voice of strangers." From among the chorus of voices we hear in mortality, we must recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd, who calls us to follow him toward our heavenly home.

Dallin H. Oaks; April 1989, General conference

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