Choose the Life: Exploring a Faith That Embraces Discipleship

by Bill Hull

Publisher:

Baker

, 2004

Overview

Get ready to explore a faith that does not separate salvation from discipleship, but embraces the seamless journey from conversion to transformation.

In Choose the Life, discipleship expert Bill Hull breaks new ground, challenging what we’ve made of the Gospel. He believes that the Great Commission has more to do with spiritual depth than strategies and structures. Jesus is calling us to choose the life of thinking as he thought, living as he lived, loving as he loved, ministering as he ministered, and leading as he led. Anything less is Christ-less Christianity.

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Key Features

• Embraces the seamless journey from conversion to transformation
• Examines the meaning of the Great Commission
• Challenges the way Christians view the Gospel

Contents

• How I Got to This Point
• The Need for the Life
• The Call to the Life
• The Habits of the Life
• The Inner Workings of the Life
• The Mind and the Life
• Relationships and the Life
• Submission and the Life
• Leadership and the Life

Top Highlights

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, ‘Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.’” (Page 11)

“‘Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.’” (Page 18)

“Henri Nouwen said, let us be transformed from relevance to prayer, from popularity to ministry, and from leading to being led.” (Page 21)

“We have made the test for salvation doctrinal rather than behavioral.” (Page 23)

“The trouble with our evangelism is that we have made it so easy to enter the Christian life that we miss the repentance, commitment, and regeneration that provide the power to live the Christian life.” (Page 24)

Praise for the Print Edition

This is a book for people looking for challenges, and who want to enlarge their vision to be all that God intended them to be. It is easy to read, filled with practical illustrations and it comes from the depths of his heart and experience.

—Clyde Cook, former president, Biola University

This book is worth the price simply for Bill’s elegant, comprehensive, penetrating five-fold definition of what a disciple is. It offers so much more than that too—resources and inspiration to help churches in the doldrums rediscover their bearings, heave their anchors, and raise their sails to the wind of adventure in ‘the Life.’

—Brian McLaren, activist, author, and speaker

In a churchly culture of many decisions but few disciples, Bill Hull challenges us to exchange ingrained patterns of unfruitful mediocrity for the paradigm of radically following Jesus on the path of transformational discipleship. If faithfully heeded, Choose The Life will revolutionize the people of God.

—Bruce Demarest, professor of Christian theology and spiritual formation, Denver Seminary

With great humility and clarity, Bill Hull reminds us that being a Christian and being Christlike are synonymous. Choose the Life pinpoints the missing pieces of contemporary discipleship and delivers a compelling call to become a community of obedient, transparent disciples. Every Christian leader who desires to live a life worthy of replication should read this book.

—Judith Hougen, assistant professor of English, Northwestern College

Product Details

• Title: Choose the Life: Exploring a Faith that Embraces Discipleship
• Author: Bill Hull
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Christian life
• ISBNs: 9781441257031, 9780801064708, 1441257039, 0801064708
• Resource ID: LLS:CHSLFXPLRNGFTHT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:43:28Z

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.