Recent blog posts
- Making Mistakes
- Being a friend of God
- The Necessity of the Word of God and External Action
- Can a privatized spirituality change the world?
- Defeat the Gospel
- The neglect of the saints
- Which Gospel determines what we do
- What kind of people does our gospel naturally create? Continued
- How did the church make its mark?
- The thin veil
About Bill Hull
Bill Hull’s passion has been to help the church return to its disciple making roots and he considers himself a discipleship evangelist. This God-given desire has manifested itself in twenty years of pastoral service and the authorship of ten books. His first book, Jesus Christ Disciplemaker, is celebrating 20 years with a new edition. The Disciple Making Pastor and the Disciple Making Church are two successive books which make up his popular disciple making trilogy. These books have provided the church with a new paradigm for disciple making.
Syndicate
1st Century Palestinian culture was only about 10% literate and there was no printing presses around, no TV, no radio, no iPod's, no internet. So when the sun went down, what was there to do except sit around eat a meal, and talk ... and more importantly, tell stories. All this begs the question: was it even really possible for their culture to have "quiet times" in the way that we think of "quiet times"?
My guess is that the "quiet times" of the early Jesus movements looked more like a family and friends sitting around a meal telling the stories of Jesus that formed their common identity.
That goes along with what your talking about: quiet times as a community. If we sat around the table and talked with each other, telling stories from the Bible about Jesus, how they impact us, and form our common identity, that would be the type of "quiet time" (or rather "not so quiet time") that I could get behind.