A Guide to Christian Ambition: Using Career, Politics, and Culture to Influence the World

by Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt has worked for and with people in some of the most powerful and influential positions in the country. He knows what is required to reach and thrive in such positions, and in this book he shares some of that valuable, hard-won knowledge. A Guide to Christian Ambition provides readers with valuable insights, wisdom, personal experiences, and advice on how to rise in the world and achieve the kind of radical success that honors God.

Genres: Leadership

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 29, 2000

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very practical read, good...and yet I am unsure. Haven't been so thrown by a book in a long time. Something doesn't sit right. Perhaps what I really want are some things explained better. WHY should the Christian seeking the world move to New York, DC, or LA? I get the principle of it, but what makes flipping burgers in New York or abroad any more powerful than in your hometown? Does having a small but good library really make you somehow more qualified than an extensive one? In the end, a useful read, but nothing absolutely new. It's like he wanted to write a book about making it in the world and decided to include a Christian bend for the market. And he really doesn't answer some questions that I think are key. Like, how does the Christian walk without falling in a culture that embraces things we are morally opposed to? As one of my friends put it, how does someone make it big in Hollywood or Broadway without compromising their morals? It is all well and good to say 'move to LA it is the center of pop culture' but practically it is not useful advice. To adequately explore what he means might take a bigger book without "bite size chapters". Using that format may get more readers, but it hardly makes world changers out of them. Overall, a helpful affirmation of my path but not particularly one I'd recommend for discovering what to do with your life

[James Sosnoski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the best written book in the world. It is, however, a departure from the standard evangelical rejection of power and influence being a good thing. It was refreshing to read a Christian author lauding ambition and recognizing that it is the duty of Christians to influence the culture. I would recommend.

[Steelman · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is a lot of good advice in this book for all that God calls to serve in any capacity in this world. There is also quite a bit of questionable advice that leads me to believe the author is seeking to justify the positional and career choices he has made. Read with some caution.

[Rachel Stephens · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent book about how Christians shouldn't sit back and let the world go to Hell in a hand-basket. Christians were never meant to sit idly by, but to be a light unto the world. The best way to be a light is to climb to the top of the ladder and a good, principled leader to the lost.