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Author biography

new church. Reggie has lectured or taught as adjunct faculty for multiple seminaries. In addition, he has served as a consultant to local church, denomination, and para-church leadership teams, as well as seminar developer and presenter for thousands of church leaders across North America. He has also resourced the United States Army Chief of

Chaplains Office, Air Force chaplains, and the Air Force Education and Training Command. Reggie's work also extends to the business sector, including The Gallup Organization.

Sales Handles

• Prominent Author / Subject Expert: As a popular workshop leader and keynote speaker, Reggie McNeal speaks to tens of thousands of people in the US and Canada every year on topics related to the future of Christianity, the missional church, and church leadership.

• Follow-Up To Best-Selling Book: McNeal's previous book, The Present Future, has sold over 80,000 copies and is the seminal book on missional church. Those who have bought and appreciated that book will be eager to buy this new book.

• Cutting Edge Trend: As with Italy in the 14th century, which produced an enormous outpouring of creativity and change, the Christian church in North America is now undergoing a similar renaissance that is shifting its emphasis and purpose. Books on the missional church trend are proliferating, but Reggie McNeal is one of the most respected thinkers and writers talking about what it means and how to do it.

About the book

Reggie McNeals bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the missional movement, i.e., the widespread movement

among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In thatbook he asked the tough questions that churches needed to entertain to begin to think about who they are and what they are doing; in Missional Renaissance, he shows them the three significant shifts in their thinking and behavior that they need to make that will allow leaders to chart a course toward being missional:

(1) from an internal to an external focus, ending the church as exclusive social club model;

(2) from running programs and ministries to developing people as its core activity; and

(3) from professional leadership toleadership that is shared by everyone in the community. With in-depth discussions of the what and the how of transitioning to being a missional church, readers will be equipped to move into what McNeal sees as the most viable future for Christianity. For all those thousands of churches who are asking about what to do next after reading The Present Future, Missional Renaissance will provide the answer.