For the December tape of the month, “Why It Had To Be Shepherd,” we proposed a question to those who took the tape quiz. We asked them, “why did it have to be shepherds?” and told them to give an answer in their own words. Here is the feedback that we received. We are proud of those who took the time to listen to and search the message and record their answers. God bless each of you and enjoy looking through the results.
| NAME | AGE | ANSWER |
| Matthew Martens | 10 | Wise people would not understand. |
| Allan J.Lazaro | 18 | To guide and care its own. |
| Evelyn Ruby Clever | 11 | They weren't smart and educated but babes and sucklings such as would learn |
| Ethan Douglas | 10 | They were unlearnd untrained people. |
| Jaylon Roger Strite | 15 | They were the only ones that would receive him. He sent it to shepherds before, he don't change the way he does things. |
| Justin D. Strite | 11 | They were humble enough to accept it. |
| Joanna Hess | 11 | Theologeons would not receive him. Shepherds were the only one that could receive lambs. |
| Caleb Hess | 15 | The shepherds were humble and would receive the message before the educated would. |
| Isaac Martens | 8 | The others where so trained in everything. |
| Kaitlyn Grace Sanger | 10 | The great Theologians would not have understood or believed. |
| Aaron E. Cornett | 6 | Jesus is the Shepherd and we are the sheep!!! |
| Triston B. Cornett | 9 | Jesus is the shepherd and we are the sheep. |
| Jason Hess | 12 | It was shepherds because they are humble and God knew they would accept it. |
| Elizabeth-Joan Quansah | 17 | It had to be shepherds because shepherds know their sheep and they(shepherds)were untrained and received the message from the Angels |
| Hannah Brandt | 13 | It had to be shepherds because God needed someone humble. God works through humble people. |
| Faith Wenger | 16 | It had to be shepherd because the great men of that day wouldn't have accepted it. And Jesus was a lamb born to forgive our sins and the shephards were comfortable with that lamb where the great men of the day would have been so out of place and would never have accepted the humble way that Jesus came to earth. |
| Mary Hanoo | 11 | It had to be shepherd because shepherds are very humble and willing. |
| Amelia Klopp | 10 | It had to be shepherds because they felt right at home in the stable. If the priests walked into the stable they would have held their noses in disgust and left imeditately. |
| Ellen Faith Martens | 12 | He had to take care of his sheep |
| Isaac Hyde | 18 | God's Message has always come to shepherds and Jesus was The Lamb Of God therefore the message came to shepherds. |
| John A. Hyde | 14 | Gods infinite wisdom and Jesus was a lamb |
| Lois Hyde | 12 | God was a Lamb so he could only send shepherd. |
| Rebekah Elizabeth Chavez | 13 | God made Hisself known in the shepherd-prophet. |
| Emily Rose Sampson | 12 | God gave His message to shepherds because the others were so wrapped up in their denominations, they would not receive it. So He gave it to humble, unlearned shepherds because they didn't know about all that other stuff, so they would receive it. |
| Isaiah Fritzinger | 8 | Becus all the smart peopule was thinking of the wrong way. |
| Caleb Douglas | 12 | Because God uses people that are nothing |
| Austen Dockens | 18 | Because they would understand a Lamb, they would be comfortable in a stable, and they would believe the angels' announcement. Also, they were fitting because shepherds represented every prophet including Christ, the Great Shepherd. |
| Michael Calini | 12 | Because they were the only ones humble enough to excepte that kind of message. |
| Autumn Klopp | 7 | Because they were sheperds and Jesus was considered like a sheep and the lamb of God. Jesus was also born in a manger. |
| John Erickson | 19 | Because they were humble unlearned and alls they new was there sheep and they would give their life for the sheep unlike the hired man. I better go and listen to the tape again! |
| Hannah Marie Jones | 13 | Because Jesus was born in a stable, like A Lamb |
| Meda Ruth Hyde | 15 | Because Jesus was a sheep and God could not change his method of using shepherds. |
| Ruth A Hyde | 7 | Because Jesus is a Lamb. |
| Joanna M. Strite | 10 | Because Jesus chose them to see our king. |
| Erin Millis | 17 | Because Jesus came as a Lamb and Shepherds keep watch over lambs and Shepherds were the only ones humble enough to believe the angel. |
| Paul S. Hyde | 10 | Because it was the wisdom of God that knew that the clergymen, scribes and rich man would not accept such a message. |
| Kristian Halonen | 20 | Because it couldnt be anything else, but shepherd. Shepherd knew how to handle the Lamb. |
| Jessica F. Strite | 19 | Because it comes to the humble and simple people. And the high up people wouldn't have believed it. |
| Laura Elaine Dockens | 11 | Because god was a lamb |
| Nathan Brandt | 17 | Because a sheep was born and sheperds know how to take care of sheep. |
| Joshua Sanger | 8 | Because Jesus was a shepherd |
| Micah G Williams | 15 | Because God new that no one in that day would exept it and when a prophesy was given it was allways given to shepherds. |
| Isaac David Williams | 18 | The educated men of the day would not have accepted it. They would have been out of place. Also Jesus was a lamb. |