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- Which Gospel determines what we do
- What kind of people does our gospel naturally create? Continued
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- 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.
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Bill,
I'm with you on the positives of McLaren. I was raised in an independent baptist climate, went to a bible college of like mind, and then started rebelling ever since. I wasted much time and energy questioning legalistic tendencies so much so that I neglected to question my own beliefs about truth and doctrine. God is taking me through a time where I am "unlearning" all of my traditional beliefs so that I can "relearn" them in my heart. Authors like Willard, McLaren, yourself, Kimball, NT Wright, have been a gift from God because your writings enable me to truly examine the core of my faith. Having said that, I am for the first time discovering wonderful core doctrines such as atonement, imputation, etc that a few years ago I would have stated as beliefs yet wasn't really gripped by them. Basically, it's like moving from intellectual assent to heart impact. It's not a process that has an end in sight though, I know that I will forever be unlearning and relearning.
I think too many evangelicals are afraid to enter this process because we fear apostasizing, or we think we might wake up with a number tattooed on our brows. I remember my parents and godly teachers stressing the importance of "being grounded" before I reached adulthood, and I now see the value of being grounded which involved a level of intellectual assent, BUT we need to till the ground around those hardened roots so the tree above the ground can flourish.
thanks, Rob
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