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Thoughts In today’s comments I’d like to address chapter 5, verses 1 through 6. Who Should Be the Shepherd? Peter tells the older members to be shepherds to God’s flock from a sincere desire and not for money, and do so by providing a good example, not by lording it over them. And then he tells the younger folks that they should be willing to submit to the older people. He wraps up this section by saying that they should all be very humble with each other. These verses grabbed my attention because I have been involved in the church since I was a teenager. So I’ve been one of the younger crowd, and I am now one of the older crowd. I’ve been on both sides. One Effect of the 1960s Jesus Movement When I was young, there was no doubt that the elders were in charge. Church was pretty much entrenched in the way things were done. But I got saved right around the time that the Jesus Freak movement was born, and a lot of changes began to happen. Somewhere along the line we have come to a point wher