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.
I did read Carson's Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church. I thought it was well written and precise. I am more in sympathy with Carson theologically, but I was not pleased with the spirit of the book. It seemed to jump to conclusions about matters on which McLaren was silent. McLaren is evasive, he doesn't want to say out loud exactly what he believes for two reasons, 1. He is not sure what he believes, 2. He doesn't want us to know what he believes. Carson I think assumes the worst in his book, I would want to assume the best about Brian.