A Pastoral Reflection on Polity, Power, and Wounded Sheep by Rev. José Portillo Long before the church wrestled with these questions, the LORD himself addressed them through the prophet Ezekiel, in one of the most searing indictments of failed shepherds in all of Scripture: “Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?... The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the