Conversion and Discipleship: You Can’t Have One without the Other

by Bill Hull

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2016

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: Conversion & Discipleship: You Can’t Have One without the Other
• Author: Bill Hull
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 250
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Discipling (Christianity); Spiritual formation; Conversion › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780310112655, 9780310520092, 0310520096, 310520096, 0310112656, 9780310520085, 0310520088
• Resource ID: LLS:CNVRSNDSCPLSHP
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-20T18:31:33Z

About Bill Hull

Bill Hull is a discipleship evangelist. His passion is to help the church return to its disciple-making roots. This God-given desire has manifested itself in 20 years of serving in pastoral service and authoring 25 books, including Jesus Christ Disciplemaker, The Disciple-Making Pastor, and The Disciple-Making Church. Bill speaks about discipleship around the world to both congregations and leaders. He is also a co-founder of The Bonhoeffer Project (www.thebonhoefferproject.com), a group of nationally known thought leaders championing a “new” gospel-that which Jesus taught-saying that those who are called to salvation are called to discipleship. Bill and his wife, Jane, make their home in Long Beach, California, and are the parents of two grown sons.