Add Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice to Your Coaching Resource List

In keeping with my belief that whatever we want to happen in the lives of the members of our groups, must happen in the lives of the leaders first, it stands to reason that we can’t expect the lives of our coaches and leaders to be something that we are not.

With me?

As a result, I’m always on the hunt for books that can help shape me and resources that might better equip me to develop and disciple my coaches (so my coaches can develop and disciples the leaders they coach).

In the course of my hunt I discovered a book this week that I think you should know about. Published in 2006, Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson contains “61 carefully chosen selections from Dallas Willard’s best-selling book Renovation of the Heart.”  The selections were chosen to guide you through Dr. Willard’s “plan for renovating the complete person.” Each chapter also includes Jan Johnson’s suggestions for “making the concepts come alive in your own experience.”

Dallas Willard’s book Renovation of the Heart is a book that has shaped me. At the same time, I’ve learned that the point or the application of Dallas Willard’s writing doesn’t always pop immediately into my mind. I don’t know about you, but it is often the case that I benefit most from the reference to or interpretation of a Dallas Willard phrase or quote by someone else (for example, John Ortberg).

I’m finding the format of Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice to be very helpful, both to me personally and in my thinking about the patterns and practices we need to introduce into the developing and discipling of our coaches. If you’re on the hunt for this kind of resource, I highly recommend this one.