Pope Says Jesus Wants Us to Go Out and Bring in ‘the 99’ Sheep

CNA: Christians are called to be evangelists, seeking out the sheep who are lost rather than staying at home tending to the few who have never left, Pope Francis said at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.

“It’s the 99 who we’re missing! We have to go out, we must go to them,” the Bishop of Rome said June 17 to the participants of the annual convention of the Diocese of Rome.

“The Lord wants pastors, not combers of sheep; pastors! And when a community is closed, always among the same people who talk, this community is not a community that gives life.” Read more here.