The Fellow Elder and You One must wonder whether that memory was washing over Peter, thirty years later. With the clouds of persecution gathering under the storm of Nero’s insanity, the dispersed Christians in Asia needed hope. They would suffer. They needed shepherds. Compelled by the Spirit, Peter wrote to them: So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have
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