Recent blog posts
- Making Mistakes
- Being a friend of God
- The Necessity of the Word of God and External Action
- Can a privatized spirituality change the world?
- Defeat the Gospel
- The neglect of the saints
- Which Gospel determines what we do
- What kind of people does our gospel naturally create? Continued
- How did the church make its mark?
- 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.
Syndicate
First of all, I have been right where you are and I am sure will find myself there again given the nature of life. I follow some basic rules, oh well, most of the time I follow these rules.1. I don't do any disciplines that I haven't seen Jesus do.2. Jesus was not uptight about them, it seems he did them because he sensed a need to communicate with his father. So I refuse to be uptight and guilty because Jesus just did them on a as needed basis, so me too. 3. I think of them as exercise that will equip me to be nearer the heart of God, to hear his voice and to enjoy him.4. I focus on the ones I especially need. If I have a tendency to need noise, I choose silence, if I am addicted to people, I choose solitude, If I am addicted to food, I choose fasting, if I am full of control issues and anxiety, I meditate on peace.If I am withdrawn and selfish, I choose service.5. I also do them my way, walking, exercising, at a time of day that fits me, I don't let others decide for me. I choose the think of it all as a grace narrative, I am weak, lost, messed up, and I am drawn to God for strength, guidance, and character.