When one surveys the church scene world wide, it is the American church that is now the mission field. The church in Africa and Asia(yes, even in China) are where efforts to make disciples are now most serious.The energy of church leaders must be turned toward enlisting younger men and women into apprenticeship to Christ. This assumes that existing leaders are living in such a way as to be good examples to the flock.I have concluded that the priorities of church leaders must shift from corporate markers of success to personal ones. For it is in the common and personal life, rather than the public life, that real spiritual power is located. That is why it is far more important to be a disciple than to have a plan to make disciples. When people are disciples, they will find a way to make other disciples. In fact, they won’t be able to stop themselves from doing it.
Recent blog posts
- Praying for the Well
- The forgiveness only gospel
- Getting discipleship out of the ghetto
- Discipleship is life long
- What does a materialistic consumer Church have to teach a vibrant church in poverty?
- If Christians were in charge would it change the world?
- The danger of promiscuous reading-or your futile effort to stay current
- Why the Church is the West is now the number one mission field
- What the Church is too impatient and needy to do
- Teacher to the nations
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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