The best training a pastor can receive comes from proven leaders with proven track records, and this volume collects messages on spiritual leadership from the Shepherds' Conference at Grace Community Church. John MacArthur serves as general editor and contributor, and the featured voices include John Piper, Steven Lawson, R. C. Sproul and Albert Mohler - men who have led churches and institutions through real opposition rather than written about leadership from a distance.

The chapters treat the essentials of effective ministry, the place of purity and integrity in a leader's own life, personal and public prayer, biblical responses to suffering and opposition, and dependence on God's grace and empowerment rather than native ability. The second volume in The Shepherd's Library and a companion to The Shepherd as Preacher. Hardcover, 224 pages.