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 don't know how we managed to get away from teaching basic obedience for so long. Maybe people thought it went without saying. Maybe they thought you'd get that from your Bible reading. Maybe they honestly thought it didn't matter.
But we have to be careful of the opposite error today -- too many seem to think a little knowledge and a lot of action is fine.
You can't obey if you don't read; if you're not going to obey, there's no point in reading.