pastor whose church was continually losing members. Every time someone asked him how his church was doing he would reply grimly, “I think we have turned a corner.” The pastor said this so often people wondered if he was the pastor of a maze or a church! Just as Moses was not released from his followers when they disobeyed God and began a forty-year hiatus in the wilderness, so true leaders stay with their people until they have successfully achieved God’s purposes. Moses himself had remained faithful