lost sheep

"They brand me as a lost sheep, and young people are told that I'll mislead them. I am lonely most of the time."

“We are teaching our people they are the lost sheep of the true nation of Israel,” the statement said.

In fact, it was another document from Pope Francis, urging clergy to go find “the lost sheep,” that pushed Peixoto to work harder on his music skills so that professional-sounding sets could become a way to reach those who might never step inside a church.

“It’s taken for granted that you’re a believer, but you don’t participate. It’s not like I believed that much anyway,” she said in her hairdressing salon, next to a restaurant called “The Lost Sheep.”

There was a concerted effort by the right-wing extremist groups to bring them in, because they were like lost sheep.