“Feed my sheep,” Jesus says to us. “Don’t turn inward in your study to become disciples. Instead, see everything that happens as preparation to engage the community in more compelling ways.” And that’s what we hope to do in the pages of this book: to help the reader understand this larger perspective on discipleship, where it ceases to be about us and becomes about engaging with our communities. It’s important that we get this right. Seventh-day Adventists have been distinctly