For Faith Leaders Burning Out, This Little Book with a Funny Name Could Make All the Difference

Just in time for this season of renewal, Five Crow Press presents a small but mighty new book as a breath of fresh air for weary leaders on the frontlines of faith. 8 is a plainspoken, funny, and deeply insightful guide for pastors, ministry teams, and faith-based leaders navigating the weight of modern-day shepherding.

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With its play-on-words title that points to familiar biblical metaphors around shepherds and flocks of sheep in need of attentive care, David McCauley’s You Don’t Know Sheep provides road-tested insight for some of today’s most perplexing faith-based leadership issues.

Written with humor and heart, You Don’t Know Sheep: An Unconventional Field Guide for Today’s Faith Leader is the offering of veteran AV strategist David McCauley and his three decades of working with faith-based leaders across ministries of all types and sizes. Drawing from years of fly-on-the-wall observation and a psychology-meets-theology lens, McCauley highlights the recurring struggles ministry leaders face—and offers a shift in perspective that helps turn those challenges into breakthroughs.

“Just like the recurring patterns in fractal geometry, there are recurring patterns in the dynamics of faith-based leadership that show up with a predictability that no longer astounds me,” McCauley says. “I realized that while the metaphors of tending a flock were very easy to understand and apply in biblical times, these simple truths and connections have gotten muddled and sometimes lost in the complexities of today’s world.”

McCauley offers You Don’t Know Sheep to help today’s faith leaders reconnect with the biblical concepts of shepherding that still hold true in a very different world—and to leverage these timeless dynamics of successful shepherding in new ways.

You Don’t Know Sheep is now available in hardcover, paperback, and digital editions—making it more accessible than ever for busy leaders who crave insight they can absorb quickly and apply immediately.

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“While the metaphors of tending a flock were much more relatable in biblical times, these powerful and simple truths still apply in the complex dynamics of faith-based leadership in today’s world.”