"Unless time efficiency methods are linked with the moral purpose of keeping people whole, they can be as dangerous as teaching others to shoot a gun without knowing what they intend to shoot," asserts clergy counselor Robert L. Randall in this unexpected and surprising new approach to time management for pastors and other church leaders.

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Rondall exposes mass market books that propose one-minute manage-ment techniques, that offer one-size-fits-all prescriptions, or that treat symptoms instead of causes. Instead, he presents a compelling case for living the time of your life by taking care of yourself First, he shows that time management problems are actually caused by

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a fragmentation within a leader's personality, and not by having too many things to do. The loss of the self leads to a loss of direction (the time arrow) or a loss of stability (the time cycle) Randall sets forth a useful chart for the levels of self/time management

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that helps the leader place the self on any given day. One persan might be living in "ambulatory" time Another might be operating from "revealed" time. Randall teaches the leader how to do self-assessment Then in separate chapters, he shows how self/time management will lead to more fulfilling and care-oriented preaching, more effective and wise church administration, and, above all, the most helpful and healing pas toral care that a minister can offer