Spiritual Battle — The Shield of Faith: Leadership Discussion Guide

This guide takes Paul’s image of the shield of faith in Ephesians 6:16 and turns it into a conversation for those who lead — elders, deacons, teachers, anyone carrying responsibility for the spiritual life of others. It is built for group discussion rather than individual reading.

Use it in a leadership meeting, a retreat, or an ongoing gathering of those who shepherd others — a chance to ask together what it looks like to “take up the shield of faith” in the particular pressures of leading.

Spiritual Battle — The Shield of Faith (A Deep Study for Church Leadership)

This is a fuller, more sustained study of the shield of faith than the discussion guide offers — written for those in church leadership who want to spend real time in the text itself, its theology, and what it asks of someone whose faith is tested not only for their own sake but for the sake of those they lead.

It moves, as my other studies do, from the text to its theology and then to its practice, but with an eye throughout to the particular weight that leadership adds to the fight of faith.