Andrew Hardy currently serves as an academic programme director at ForMission College. He is also engaged in doctoral research at Roehampton University in the field of practical and empirical theology. He has coauthored and authored several books, among them Pictures of God: Shaping Missional Church Life. Dan Yarnell is the National Coordinator for the Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Great Britain and Ireland, and a senior lecturer in missional and contextual theology at ForMission College. He is the coauthor of Celebrating the Small Church (1993), Forming Multicultural Partnerships (2015), and Power and the Powers: The Use and Abuse of Power in its Missional Context (2015). He lives in Redditch, Worcestershire with his wife Amy.

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It is not a changing culture, reduced resources, or a rescinding Christian memory that creates the greatest challenges for the church in the West. It is the lack of a clear commitment to the intentional, authentic, and contextual expressions of missional disciple-making, which will shape current and future generations of followers of Jesus to express the values of the Kingdom today. This book offers stimulating historical, biblical, and theological reflections on discipleship and considers some of the possibilities and opportunities afforded to us by our post-Christian context. Missional discipleship allows the missio Dei to shape us in our engagement our practices and sustain us in the lifelong journey of becoming and developing disciples that follow Jesus today.