I suppose some books are more intentional than others. But this may be the least intentional of any book you'll ever read. It's an accident, actually. What happened was I was combing through our website in search of articles written over the years trying to assemble a book on church health. I kept stumbling across things I'd written on pastoring, a subject I know a little about--and have the scars to prove --having devoted over forty years to serving six churches. Sometimes I would read one of the pieces and think, "That's a keeper. That would make a good book for pastors." Gradually, I began moving the articles into a Word file, arranging them in some kind of order and editing out redundancies, deleting dated references, and correcting typos. You hold in your hand the result.