Making Sense of Church | The Flock - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our Fall Sermon Series, Making Sense of Church, by addressing the crisis of trust in our culture when it comes to leadership with a teaching on Jesus as the Good Shepherd and the Church as the Flock. In critiquing the religious leaders of His day, Jesus clearly lays out His vision for leadership in the Church through the relationship between a shepherd and their flock, or those under their care. Pastor Jon called us to consider Jesus’ standards for leaders and followers in the Church, and allow Him to inform how we both lead and follow in our church communities today.

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0:00.0	Today's teaching text comes from John chapter 10, verses 11 through 21.
0:12.0	Says, I am the good shepherd.
0:16.0	The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
0:20.0	The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep.
0:24.1	So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away.
0:29.2	Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.
0:32.6	The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep,
0:40.8	and my sheep know me, just as the father knows me and I know the father. And I lay down my life
0:46.7	for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen, I must bring them also.
0:54.4	They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
1:00.7	The reason my father loves me is that I lay down my life, only to take it up again.
1:06.8	No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again.
1:14.6	This command I received from my father.
1:17.6	The Jews who heard these words were again divided.
1:21.6	Many of them said, he is demon-possessed and raving mad.
1:25.6	Why listen to him? But others said, these are not the
1:29.6	sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? This is the
1:35.8	word of the Lord. May be seated. Well, good morning, church. It's good to be with you today. Before we take a look at this
1:48.6	passage today, just want to take a moment to acknowledge what a heavy and heart-breaking week
1:58.3	as a nation. This week, probably the biggest event, the assassination of Charlie
2:05.9	Kirk this week, 31 year old husband and father, regardless of your views on politics,
2:15.1	I have many friends that knew him personally, and I have no doubt he was a sincere
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