Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker
Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker

Author: Bill Hull

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1585581631

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Thomas doubted. Peter denied. Matthew had a shady past. And most of Jesus' disciples had trouble understanding his true message and mission at times. How did Jesus take lowly fishermen and tax collectors and turn them into some of the most influential men that ever lived? And how can modern church leaders empower regular church members to meet their potential as servants of God? In Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker, Hull outlines Christ's methods in training his twelve disciples and presents a biblical pattern that emulates Christ's model for reaching the lost. By taking readers through four growth phases-evangelizing, establishing, equipping, and leading-Hull shows how these principles can be adapted for any discipler. Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker is the perfect resource for pastors and church leaders who want to learn how to help others grow in God's service.

New Century Disciplemaking
New Century Disciplemaking

Author: Bill Hull

Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780800756413

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"New Century Disciplemaking challenges us to make discipleship the heart of the church's ministry in the coming century. By observing Jesus, we realize that the principles he taught transcend time and culture, can be applied in any setting, and can be adapted by any discipler. Following Jesus through the Gospels, Hull outlines Christ's methods in training his twelve disciples. He then presents a biblical pattern that emulates Christ's model for reaching the lost and establishing new converts to Christianity. Hull takes you through four growth phases: evangelizing, establishing, equipping, and leading. By following these phases patiently and lovingly, you will be able to cultivate consistent disciples who remain in Christ, are obedient, bear spiritual fruit, and glorify God."--The Publisher.

The Disciple-Making Pastor
The Disciple-Making Pastor

Author: Bill Hull

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1441201033

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Christ commanded the church to make disciples, to produce people who love and obey God, bear fruit, and live with joy. The crisis at the heart of the church is that we often pay lip service to making disciples, but we seldom put much effort behind doing it. For the pastor who is ready to put words into action, The Disciple-Making Pastor offers the inspiration and practical know-how to do so. Bill Hull shows pastors the obstacles they will face, what disciples really look like, the pastor's role in producing them, and the practices that lead to positive change. He also offers a six-step coaching process to help new disciples grow in commitment and obedience and practical ideas to integrate disciple making into the fabric of the church.

The Disciple-Making Church
The Disciple-Making Church

Author: Bill Hull

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1441212272

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Scripture places high priority on the disciplemaking capacity of the church, This book shows how to accomplish it. Foreword by Howard Ball.

Conversion and Discipleship
Conversion and Discipleship

Author: Bill Hull

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0310520088

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Discipleship occurs when someone answers the call to learn from Jesus how to live his or her life as though Jesus were living it. The end result is that the disciple becomes the kind of person who naturally does what Jesus did. How the church understands salvation and the gospel is the key to recovering a biblical theology of discipleship. Our doctrines of grace and salvation, in some cases, actually prevent us from creating an expectation that we are to be disciples of Jesus. A person can profess to be a Christian and yet still live under the impression that they don’t need to actually follow Jesus. Being a follower is seen as an optional add-on, not a requirement. It is a choice, not a demand. Being a Christian today has no connection with the biblical idea that we are formed into the image of Christ. In this ground-breaking new book, pastor and author Bill Hull shows why our existing models of evangelism and discipleship fail to actually produce followers of Jesus. He looks at the importance of recovering a robust view of the gospel and taking seriously the connection between conversion—answering the call to follow Jesus—and discipleship—living like the one we claim to follow.

The Disciplemaker
The Disciplemaker

Author: Gary Wayne Derickson

Publisher:

Published: 2001-10-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780971387010

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What are the keys to being a fruitful Christian? What does it take to be blessed and experience answered prayer? What is the key to successful evangelism? Our Lord answered these questions the night before His betrayal when He met with His most intimate friends for their final instruction. All of us want to be blessed by God and to have our prayer answered. These words of Jesus tell us a sure way to be blessed. And it has to do with how we treat each other. The Upper Room Discourse is a faithful recounting of Jesus last evening with His disciples in which He addressed those issues foremost on His heart. The Disciplemaker approaches the study of Jesus teachings that evening in light of the men He addressed. As a result its conclusions are unique to the present literature on the Upper Room. Where other scholars see Johns account of the conversation that evening as a reflection on the cross and interpret Jesus teachings as justification truths (how to become saved), these authors recognize what Jesus says first and foremost as embodying rich sanctification truths (how to enjoy salvation) for the eleven believing apostles. And, what He said to His men that night is as important and life changing for us today as it was for them. The Disciplemaker is a resource for the lay reader as well as the pastor/biblical scholar. It is also suitable as a textbook for use in courses on the life of Christ or Johannine theology. The main body of this 480-page work has been freed of typical theological jargon and Greek terms are transliterated and explained. Extensive notes are provided for those interested in the technical issues behind interpretive decisions, discussions by the authors, or in identifying the works of those scholars and views discussed.

Discipling as Jesus Discipled
Discipling as Jesus Discipled

Author: Dann Spader

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0802495044

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Want to make disciples, but not quite sure how? Learn from the Master. Making disciples is tough. To walk someone from no knowledge of Christ to a deep, transforming relationship… that’s a challenge. But it’s our job. In Discipling as Jesus Discipled, you will be equipped to follow Jesus’ masterful strategy of making fishers of men. Through an interactive study of Jesus’ prayer in John 17 and various “mission trips” in the Gospels, you’ll learn: Three words that capture how Jesus made disciples Seven disciplines of a successful disciple-maker How to make the Great Commission a way of life Strategies for making disciples who make disciples You have one life, but when you impart it to others for the sake of Christ—and in the way of Christ—your life will multiply for the glory of God. Ready to learn from the Master?

Jesus Christ Our Lord
Jesus Christ Our Lord

Author: C. Norman Kraus

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-08-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1592447899

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In response to readers' comments, this revised edition provides helpful clarifications, charts, and expanded notes and references. Kraus, in a theological description of Jesus Christ, offers answers to questions of Jesus' identity and the nature of the revelation-salvation which came through him. This anticipates his volume, 'God Our Savior', dealing with implications of Christ's revelation for other data of theology, such as God, humankind, the Holy Spirit, church, and eschatology. For many years the idea of vicarious suffering to atone for the sins of humanity has not been self-evident in Western culture, to say nothing of the cultures of Asia. Western theologians have presupposed Roman categories of guilt and legal penalty as the framework for their explanations. However, this has been unsatisfactory in cultures where social tradition and shame are primary moral sanctions. Observing that the biblical cultural context was more oriented to shame than to a legal concept of guilt, Kraus has reinterpreted the meaning and efficacy of the cross as the means of God's salvation. Such a reinterpretation requires that one also reevaluate the theological definition of Jesus' person. How one understands what he did for us is closely related to how one understands who he was. His identity and role mutually impact each other. Thus one must ask, Who was this one who reconciled us to God by suffering the shame of our sin? In answer, Kraus finds concepts of self-identity and self-revelation most helpful. Jesus, the self-revelation of God to us, is God-giving-himself-to-us. That self-revelation comes as a self-giving, and only in the form of a genuinely personal, historical, and human relationship. In all of this the author intends to present an authentically biblical picture of Jesus, but in the context of modern language and thought forms.