My blogging has been a bit erratic over the past couple of months. Mainly because I’ve been working on two little books that will be released within a couple of months of each other. Their content couldn’t be more different from each other. It’s been fun to go back and forth between the two.
The first went live on Amazon yesterday.
When To Leave: How To Know It’s Time To Move On (Before You Stay Way Too Long) is a follow-up to my first book, Before You Go. When to Leave was originally intended to be a short addendum to Before You Go. But the more I thought about all the issues I wanted to address, and as I began to sketch out my ideas, it was obvious that When To Leave needed to be a book, not a new chapter stuck at the end of Before You Go.
When To Leave is a more complicated than Before You Go because in many cases knowing when to leave is harder than figuring out where to go.
Because I push back against what conventional wisdom says about how long a pastor should stay at a church, there is plenty of room for disagreement over a few of the positions I take. I’ll be interested to see the feedback to a couple of chapters
I sent early versions of the manuscript out to a number a friends, several of whom aren’t pastors or ministers. They said the material was applicable to their situations as well. So even if you’re not a pastor there are probably a few principles in When To Leave that will speak to your situation.
Very little of When To Leave has made an appearance on this blog. Expect lots of new material and a few stories I haven’t told anywhere else.
Did you know it’s super easy to buy a Kindle book as a gift for someone else? You buy it and they get an email from Amazon telling them to come download their new book. If you’d like to get rid of your minister, When To Leave would make an excellent “hint” gift. Try it. If it works, let me know.
What are you waiting for? Go buy it!
Don’t have a Kindle reader?
Not a problem. It can be read on any device (Macs, PCs, iPads, iPhones, Android devices and Blackberries) with the Kindle reader app. (Available here)
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons
Enjoyed your new book. Thankful to be able to recommend to other ministers and pastors who are struggling in their current position. I wish I would have had something similar to help me process what I knew several years ago in my first ministry position. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Lantz! I really appreciate the encouragement and the positive word of mouth.