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 also have a distaste for the trivial statement, "God took her or him because He needed them in Heaven." God doesn't need us, He chose us to live for Him and when our days our up, then we go to be with Him. [Psa. 139 is a good read on this] I don't believe however, that a person not walking with God can depend on living out their days as God has planned. Obviously, if we are not in God's will, we can't expect such certainty. Tim Russert was a man of faith, I don't know where He stood with God. I can only hope that what people said about him is true. I believe that God is all powerful, all knowing, and his attributes include love and justice. Therefore, I trust in His character and also believe that there is so much I don't know and understand, that the mystery of tragedy is above my understanding. Christians have the blessed hope, we trust in that.