More ‘I am’ sayings

(a) What kinds of people would have counted as ‘false shepherds’ in Old Testament times and in Jesus day? And in our own day?

(b) In Jn 10:10b Jesus says, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” What has been your experience of that life? How do you think you could have a deeper experience of it?

(c) In Jn 15, Jesus stresses that, in order to be fruitful, the branch must be attached to the vine. What, according to this passage, does it mean for us to be attached to (‘remain in’) Christ? And what what does it mean (again, picking up hints from this passage) for us to be ‘fruitful’?