The dialogue between Jesus and Peter at the end of the Gospel of John thoroughly reorients Peter's focus off from himself and onto the somber responsibility of tending his Master's flock, defending them with his very life through martyrdom. Like Peter, we do not really love Christ until we unconditionally accept His will for us. Those called by God share in the shepherding of the flock, serving as "under shepherds" (or priests in training), all having responsibility for someone, whether as a parent, a teacher or mentor, an encourager or exhorter helping edify the flock with our various spiritual gifts. As interdependent organs or appendages of the Body of Christ, we dare not exalt ourselves over or compare ourselves with any other appendage in the body, realizing we all edify one another and are dependent on one another. Every other member of Christ's body has a different perspective-whether old or young, male or female, parent or child, healthy or diseased, separated by different temperaments or personality types, placed by God in the Body to balance each other out just as the impetuous Peter required the balance of the introspective John. The first and last words of Jesus Christ in John are to "follow Me," directed at His disciples then and now. Discipleship requires taking up our crosses (burdens) and following Christ, requiring self-denial, sacrificing self-indulgence, changing our inward behavior, resisting anything (even if lawful) which is not related to God's purpose for our lives. Our role models include Our Savior who emptied His divinity, assuming the role of servant, and the great cloud of witnesses. Over 500 people, including the apostle John, witnessed Christ's resurrection. Those called today are indebted to these eyewitnesses.