'For my own part, I wish I had it long ago' says Sinclair Ferguson in his Foreword to this booklet.
Hoste's reflections on godly leadership are searching. These 'steps' come from his letters to missionaries when he was based in Shanghai a General Director of the China Inland mission.
A long time ago and a long way away. A snail mail really was that, and letters were written with ink and not electrons, and read at an unhurried pace. No jammed In-box. No chance to click on 'reply' and just fire off an email. Life may have seemed less frenetic, but leadership was just as pressured.
Here is our opportunity, living as we do with the tyranny of the urgent, to learn from the distilled wisdom of an outstanding leader. These 'steps' apply to Christian leaders in every situation: in churches, in student ministry, in theological training, and in the secular professions.