The Expeditionary Man: The Adventure a Man Wants, the Leader His Family Needs

The Expeditionary Man: The Adventure a Man Wants, the Leader His Family Needs

by Rich Wagner
The Expeditionary Man: The Adventure a Man Wants, the Leader His Family Needs

The Expeditionary Man: The Adventure a Man Wants, the Leader His Family Needs

by Rich Wagner

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Overview

Your career is compelling. Your ministry at church is God’s calling. But do you realize how these outside activities capture your heart and steal your time and energy from your family? Adventure becomes what you want to do, while family is what you are supposed to do. Now author Rich Wagner offers a bold alternative. In this personal and revealing book, the author challenges Christian men to harness their career ambitions and limit their ministries while their children are at home. Wagner shows how the pull of business success and the call to church ministries are compelling–even seductive. But if you allow your heart to be captured by career and church, you put your kid’s spiritual lives at risk. Far too many Christian children grow up with the vision of a loving Father in heaven, but live with the reality of an earthly father who seems more devoted to outside interests than he is to them. As a result, many children in Christian families today drift away from their faith as they become adults. Wagner reveals how accepting his challenge will not only result in spiritually healthy kids, but also give you the true adventure for which every Christian man yearns.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310317609
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 05/26/2009
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 716 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Rich Wagner is the author of The Myth of Happiness, The Gospel Unplugged, and Christianity For Dummies. A former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Rich Wagner was previously vice president of product development at an internet software company. Rich lives in New England with his wife and three sons. You can find him on line at richwagnerwords.com.

Table of Contents


Preface     9
Hardwired for Adventure     11
Climbing Solo
Pushed and Pulled     31
Frostbitten Families     53
Mapping the Ascent
From Solo Climber to Team Leader     71
Beyond the Sherpa     89
Tightrope Discipleship     103
Windows of Opportunity     127
Thriving in the Death Zone     143
Becoming an Expeditionary Man
Camp 1: Pausing Your Career     163
Camp 2: Limiting Your Ministry     179
Camp 3: Injecting "Dad" in Education     189
Camp 4: Producing Tomorrow's Disciples     199
A View from the Summit     209
Endnotes     223
Acknowledgments     229
Study Guide Questions     231
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