Herbert Douglass is an associate editor of the Review and Herald. Previously he served the church as a pastor and, with a doctorate in theology, as a college teacher, academic dean, and president. He is the author-editor of If I Had One Sermon to Preach (1972) and I Became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian (1973). This symposium reflects his own deep conviction with respect to the importance and value of the inspired counsel borne by God’s chosen messenger to the church today. WEWMM 9.2