I just finished A Tale of Three Kings about 5 minutes ago.  It is a truly incredible book about submission, true leadership and spear throwing.  It’s about Saul, David and Absalom and how we can all at different times have the same heart these men had.  Some were a heart after God and some were after evil.  This book applies to everyone in ministry.  We have all difficult people issues, leader issues.  We have all felt like David, Saul and Absalom at some time or another.  I don’t want to seem like people involved in ministry are so special and that they are the only ones that deal with these issues but as the book reads, “There is no kingdom like the kingdom of God”.  In the secular business world you can hate your boss, betray, back stab, market yourself and climb the corporate ladder and most of the time get away with it (in this lifetime).  In the ministry world, if you are in rebellion toward your leader then you are in rebellion toward God (yes it is that way in the business world too, but it is accepted).  And your are betraying your own beliefs, which really makes you miserable.

The book challenges me to never point fingers (especially the middle one) and look in my own heart and ask God how can I change?  Not: how can you change all these other people?  

Really, no matter where your “job” is you should read this book.