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.
Deeply embedded in the young's DNA is the desire for something new and different. Nothing new and exciting would happen if not for the questioning and challenging that bursts forth from a younger generation. Brian himself has reached 50, so he is not so young himself, but he is hip, cool, he thinks young, he acts young, and he challenges the conventional. What I like about him is his fresh thinking, his iconoclastic mind and personality. Some my age or even younger don't want to rethink assumptions, or tinker with orthodoxy. Brian has been influenced by intellectuals who see great value in the deconstruction of a traditional categories of truth. Younger thinkers are always more comfortable in such an environment, older leaders have already made up their minds, a fixed orthodoxy is a great comfort. Too often theological orthodoxy has become like a Christmas Tree with so many ornaments of a non-theological nature that you can't see the tree anymore. The Scriptures are inspired, orthodoxy is the collected opinion and wisdom of the church over the centuries. So we must be careful not to equate the scriptures with orthodoxy, because there is only one bible, there are many orthodoxies. But like I have already said, questions don't make a theology.