Reggie McNeal, A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders, Updated Edition. Jossey-Bass / Leadership Network, 2010.
Referenced in: Leadership Development Through Life Experiences
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
McNeal helps leaders discern how God is at work in their own lives, and to embrace ministries to which they are called. He illustrates these principles in the lives of Moses, David, Jesus, and Paul. He suggests God’s work of shaping leaders works itself out in six arenas:
- Culture — meeting the world
- Call — figuring out why we are here
- Community — connecting with others’ hearts
- Communion — rehearsing for eternity
- Conflict — learning to die so we can live
- Commonplace — discovering that the ordinary is extraordinary
The concluding chapter lists a series of reflective questions that help a leader collaborate with God’s heart-shaping work in each of these six areas.
From the Publisher
Revised and updated edition of the classic work on spiritual leadership
In A Work of Heart, bestselling author and missional expert Reggie McNeal helps leaders reflect on the ways in which God is shaping them by letting us see God at work in the lives of four quintessential biblical leaders: Moses, David, Jesus, and Paul. McNeal identifies the formative influences upon these leaders, which he sees as God’s ways of working in their lives: the same influences at work today forming leaders for ministry in our times. He explores the shaping influence of culture, call, community, conflict, and the commonplace.
- Offers guidance for church leaders to let God shape their hearts from the inside out.
- Reggie McNeal is the author of the bestselling book Missional Renaissance
- Gives reassurance for maintaining perspective while doing the demanding work of ministry
The book includes illustrative stories of contemporary leaders opening their hearts to God’s guidance.
About the Author
Reggie McNeal is the director of leadership development for South Carolina Baptist Convention. Drawing on twenty years of leadership roles in local congregations and his work over the last decade with thousands of church leaders, McNeal counsels local churches, denominational groups, seminaries and colleges, and parachurch organizations in their leadership-development needs. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters.
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