I am a big fan of Gordon MacDonald. This book is one of his best.The primary intended audience for this book is young pastors. If you know one, buy this book for them. They will be eternally grateful. It contains great wisdom and discernment from a successful, seasoned, 60+ year old pastor.If you are not a pastor, this book provides great insight, stories and ideas to improve any man's life.Some of the highpoints of the book for me are:- The 4 qualities of a leader: commuicate vision, sensitive to people, immediate assessment sense and keen self knowledge.- People will trust you only for a short while because of you college degree, ideas or dreams. Trust will be sustained only due to wisdom, keeping my word and integrity.- Charm and charisma are like a glider ... they work, but not indifinitely.- We hear more about vision, mission and leadership than trust in churches and pastors today.- We build trust with consistency, being dependable, being open, hard work, being impartial, longevity and seeking Jesus.- Gordon talks about why Jesus never experienced burnout.- Psalm 23 is a good job description for a pastor.- Megachurch preachers are CEO's, not pastors.- Every sermon (or speech) should have an intended outcome of which you tell the crowd at the beginning.- There are 5 stages of decline: arrogant conceit, undisciplined pursuit of more, denial of risk & perial, grasping for a silver bullet solution and becoming irrelevant.- When you want to quit, do what the Air Force does and take a 72-hour stand down.