Choose the Life
- Christian Living
- World Religions
- Publisher: Baker Books (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2004
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Publisher's Description
Many churches harbor harried congregations merely going through the motions--sleepwalking saints who fail to experience transformed living. Many are unable and unwilling to share the gospel, convinced that it's not their "gift."True disciples do more than the minimum, explains Hull. They choose the life and commit to bringing Jesus to the lost. They live out their beliefs and walk the walk. Submission shows the doubting world that Christ is embedded in their character. Choose the Life is a practical tool as accessible to laypeople as ministry leaders. Any church seeking life-changing significance will be challenged by this cutting-edge resource. No hand-holding here, Choose the Life shows church members how to take individual responsibility for both being discipled and discipling others.
Endorsements (6)
“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.”
“Bill Hull’s Choose the Life is a wonderful book for those tired of ho-hum Christianity. He gets right to the heart of what being a disciple of Jesus Christ means. With the drastic drop of the number of evangelicals in the last ten years, he sounds a wakeup call for the church and addresses some of the reasons for this from both a biblical perspective and his very personal account of God’s work in his own life.”
“In a fresh new way Bill challenges us to look again at the mandate to ‘make disciples of all nations.’ This book will challenge you, refresh you, and stir the passions of your life to the greatest of all causes—Great Commission living.”
“Hull, I believe, correctly identifies that though there is a growing concern among some evangelicals about the lack of true spiritual formation, this is a problem of a more fundamental nature that has been with many of us for much longer than many of us realize, namely, a vapid version of the gospel. He makes a compelling and inarguable case that the cross of Christ requires us to restore the crucial dimension of discipleship—a long obedience in the footsteps of Jesus— to our proclamations and invitations. I couldn’t agree with him more. Until we make the crucial correction, it’s useless to think we can expect our people to get excited about things like serving the overlooked or racial reconciliation.”
“It is a joy to commend this book to all Christians, and to all who want to learn what Christianity really is whether you are a believer or not. Bill Hull has genuinely revealed his soul and his experience as a pastoral leader, but more than that, he has gotten to the heart of things in a rare way.”
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