As pastors we can all cope with the

good times and blessings we receive.

What tests us is when things

go wrong, or when something happens

that causes anxiety and hurt.

How do we respond to poison pen

letters? To members who refuse to

submit to our authority as pastor?

To those who cry, ‘Unless the pastor

goes, I go’? To a group in the

church (large or small) who are for

ever criticising our preaching? To

individuals who, for reasons best

known to themselves, attempt to stir

up the church against us?

It is situations like the ones mentioned

above that cause us to cry,

‘Help, Lord, what do I do?’ In this

book we have one pastor’s honest

and moving account of the battles

he faced during his pastorate—how

he overcame them or how they

overcame him.