A challenge to Christian leaders facing the temptation to conform to the spirit of the age.

Paul the apostle summons us, as he summoned Timothy, to be strong, brave and steadfast.

John Stott writes, 'During the gestation of this book I seem to have lived inside the second letter of Paul to Timothy. In imagination I have sat down beside Timothy and have tried myself to hear and heed this final charge from the ageing apostle...

'On each occasion I have been impressed afresh by the timeliness for today of what the apostle writes, especially for young Christian leaders. For our era is one of theological and moral confusion, even of apostasy.'