focus on enfolding the individual into community life, so each person is cared for and the community remains intact. This theme surfaces in Exodus 18, when Jethro,Moses’ father-in-law, observes that Israel, a complex nation, is not properly organized to adjudicate conflict among its members. Jethro prescribes guidelines for structuring the nation so all its people will be cared for but leaders won’t burn out. (Don’t you wish your father-in-law would do the same for your church?) Through his teaching