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Walking together on the Jesus Road: Intercultural Discipling
Christians who serve Jesus among people from a different culture than their own often struggle to find a good way to disciple people. Walking Together on the Jesus Road addresses this need by guiding readers through three essential practices for making disciples across cultures: listening to disciples to get to know them and their context, focusing on relationships with Christ, fellow disciples, and others, and enabling disciples to live out their faith in culturally relevant ways. These practices are the foundation for the long-term, intentional process of helping disciples from other cultures become more like Jesus. The book also engages with practical challenges, such as enabling disciples to find and belong to a nurturing community of faith, as well as contextualizing the way we teach the Bible.
- GenresDiscipleship
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 5, 2018
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February 2, 2025
I've been reading this book slowly over the past 6 months or so in order to fully digest it. There are so many pearls of wisdom in here! I would recommend it to anyone who is in their first few years as intercultural workers/disciples. This book was humbling, practical, insightful and also nice and simple.
October 14, 2025
When I shared with my lecturer my interest in cross-cultural disciple-making, he immediately pointed me to this book by Evelyn and Richard Hibbert. They literally "wrote the book" on this topic! So I wasted no time in ordering up a copy and it arrived a few days later.
Having just completed a Masters capstone study of making disciples and leaders, I quickly recognised how powerfully and effectively they have integrated sound disciple-making principles with the realities of intercultural contexts. For them, it was primarily a context of 20+ years of missionary work in Bulgaria following the fall of the Berlin wall. Many, many Muslim people turned to Christ in that era (post-1989) and the Hibberts found themselves among them. Although well-trained by Western missionary standards, they found themselves poorly equipped for the work of discipling in intercultural contexts, and had much to learn.
This book is well-written, accessible in style and also well-referenced. It is founded in real-world experience, but also carefully referenced to missional research across the last 50 years. It is also written in an earnest tone, yet threaded-through with the humility that comes from walking with others through their journey toward Christ. The subtitle captures this: walking together on the Jesus road. By their own admission, the Millet people of eastern Europe whom the Hibberts were discipling taught the Hibberts as much as the Hibberts taught them.
This reality informs one of the central propositions of the book: intercultural discipling is intensely demanding and personal. Discipler and disciple walk and learn together. Out of this comes the reality of modelling: the discipler simply must model the way of Christ to those they would disciple. There's no way around this. Therefore our lives, if we are disciplers, must be lived with integrity, holiness, and humility: a readiness to admit our failings and demonstrate that we too need and have received the grace of God.
Other areas that stood out to me were the imperative to practise true Christian hospitality (loving the stranger) and a lengthy treatment of contextualisation that extended beyond theology and the gospel into the contextualisation of community, what we teach and how we teach.
If you are engaged with intercultural disciple making, or thinking about it, you need to read this book!
Having just completed a Masters capstone study of making disciples and leaders, I quickly recognised how powerfully and effectively they have integrated sound disciple-making principles with the realities of intercultural contexts. For them, it was primarily a context of 20+ years of missionary work in Bulgaria following the fall of the Berlin wall. Many, many Muslim people turned to Christ in that era (post-1989) and the Hibberts found themselves among them. Although well-trained by Western missionary standards, they found themselves poorly equipped for the work of discipling in intercultural contexts, and had much to learn.
This book is well-written, accessible in style and also well-referenced. It is founded in real-world experience, but also carefully referenced to missional research across the last 50 years. It is also written in an earnest tone, yet threaded-through with the humility that comes from walking with others through their journey toward Christ. The subtitle captures this: walking together on the Jesus road. By their own admission, the Millet people of eastern Europe whom the Hibberts were discipling taught the Hibberts as much as the Hibberts taught them.
This reality informs one of the central propositions of the book: intercultural discipling is intensely demanding and personal. Discipler and disciple walk and learn together. Out of this comes the reality of modelling: the discipler simply must model the way of Christ to those they would disciple. There's no way around this. Therefore our lives, if we are disciplers, must be lived with integrity, holiness, and humility: a readiness to admit our failings and demonstrate that we too need and have received the grace of God.
Other areas that stood out to me were the imperative to practise true Christian hospitality (loving the stranger) and a lengthy treatment of contextualisation that extended beyond theology and the gospel into the contextualisation of community, what we teach and how we teach.
If you are engaged with intercultural disciple making, or thinking about it, you need to read this book!
June 26, 2022
Having been involved in intercultural discipling for about a decade, I must say that this is the best book I've read on the topic. As I was reading through the book, I truly felt understood by the authors. Whatever the authors address and express in the book would pretty much reflect accurately what I've learnt through my personal experiences over the years. This book contains a wealth of wisdom which I will need to constantly reread to refresh the principles regularly. I highly recommend this very readable and approachable book to anyone who is discipling people of another culture. It is unfortunate that so few people are aware of this book!
May 2, 2020
One of the emphases of this book is to be a humble learner especially with respect to other cultures. This is written predominantly for western Christians looking to disciple others backgrounds. It challenges us to separate our (often unperceived) western biases of doing things with Christianity. Examples are focusing on law/guilt/justification in presenting the gospel, the written word in studying the Bible, rigid studies/programs for bible study/discipling, dismissing problems of other cultures that are unimportant to us (e.g. family and community) and so on.
This book is written as a kind of guidebook of general principles through the experiences of the authors. There are key quotes highlighting on each page, helpful diagrams and figures, and a useful summary of key points at the end of each chapter.
I would recommend this to anyone who has been brought up in western Christianity and discipleship and is looking to or is involved in intercultural discipling. There are many things that are the product of our western upbringing that we often don't see which this book brings to light.
This book is written as a kind of guidebook of general principles through the experiences of the authors. There are key quotes highlighting on each page, helpful diagrams and figures, and a useful summary of key points at the end of each chapter.
I would recommend this to anyone who has been brought up in western Christianity and discipleship and is looking to or is involved in intercultural discipling. There are many things that are the product of our western upbringing that we often don't see which this book brings to light.
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