secular world. I am encouraged in this “dangerous” approach by the thousands of Adventists who have heard this material in spoken form and confirmed its observations. I invite readers to search the inspired writings for themselves to see if these things are really so. A major reality that Adventists face today is that while the church as a whole is growing by leaps and bounds in selected places, we are not experiencing that kind of growth and excitement in most churches in North America. While pastors