Satan’s mission is to prevent your people from getting to heaven.

Satan’s mission is to prevent your people from getting to heaven. He does it by distracting us the pastor from defending yourself, protecting your people, and using your God-given armor. Pastors fight the good fight of faith and empower others to do the same (1 Tim 6:12). They clothe their sheep when they preach “sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1) without compromise. They nourish their sheep by leading them in God-pleasing worship (Ps 29:2). They uplift them as living sacrifices by inspiring them to remain “holy and acceptable to God” (Rom 12:1).

At the end of the day, at the end of their lives, and at the end of the world, the job of the shepherd is to get his lambs into the sheep pen of heaven.