What do you think?
Rate this book
Christlike
The final court of whether or not you are becoming like Jesus is not attending another church program but how you act in daily life. Christlike aims to change outward actions by inner spiritual growth through uncomplicated obedience in our relationship with God. Author Bill Hull uses his experience as a pastor and his background in disciplemaking and spiritual formation to show how Scripture memory plays an integral role in your discipleship. Explore what it means to be a Christian and what your role is in the kingdom of God.
210 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 2010
12 people are currently reading
39 people want to read
About the author
Bill Hull
78 books31 followersBill’s passion is to help the church return to its disciple making roots and he considers himself a discipleship evangelist. This God-given desire has manifested itself in 20 of pastoring and the authorship of many books. Two of his more important books, Jesus Christ Disciple Maker, and The Disciple Making Pastor, have both celebrated 20 years in print. Add his third in the popular trilogy, The Disciple Making Church , and you have a new paradigm for disciple making.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
August 22, 2017
Watch this on YouTube
Have you ever read something profound and thought, “This should be obvious?” That is what Christlike: The Pursuit of Uncomplicated Obedience by Bill Hull is like.
What should be obvious, isn’t always. Hull points out many things like that in the life of a Christian.
Christlike is sort of like the Christian equivalent to In Search of Excellence. In that book, readers are given what is referred to as “A Blinding Flash of The Obvious”.
Most of what Hull shares with his readers are things that we should already be familiar with and practicing. Unfortunately, it is too easy to fall into bad habits in any part of our life. The spiritual aspect of our life is much like the other parts. We often know what we should be doing, but don’t remember to do it.
We think you will enjoy your copy of Christlike. We think that churches will want to create a small class to read and discuss this book as a great small group project. It might very well help revive your church, no matter what state it is in.
We found Christlike to be an excellent read. It is very well-written and very readable. This means that the average reader won’t be struggling to understand where Hull is coming from. We give it all five stars.
We were sent a complimentary copy of this book. We are under no obligation to write any review, positive or negative.
We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.
Have you ever read something profound and thought, “This should be obvious?” That is what Christlike: The Pursuit of Uncomplicated Obedience by Bill Hull is like.
What should be obvious, isn’t always. Hull points out many things like that in the life of a Christian.
Christlike is sort of like the Christian equivalent to In Search of Excellence. In that book, readers are given what is referred to as “A Blinding Flash of The Obvious”.
Most of what Hull shares with his readers are things that we should already be familiar with and practicing. Unfortunately, it is too easy to fall into bad habits in any part of our life. The spiritual aspect of our life is much like the other parts. We often know what we should be doing, but don’t remember to do it.
We think you will enjoy your copy of Christlike. We think that churches will want to create a small class to read and discuss this book as a great small group project. It might very well help revive your church, no matter what state it is in.
We found Christlike to be an excellent read. It is very well-written and very readable. This means that the average reader won’t be struggling to understand where Hull is coming from. We give it all five stars.
We were sent a complimentary copy of this book. We are under no obligation to write any review, positive or negative.
We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.
December 10, 2016
Most of this was good, except the chapter on Hearing God's Voice which was a bit of a muddled mess.
April 5, 2010
"Christlike" is a book about what it means to be a disciple of Christ and why we should want to be one. It's Christ-focused, Bible-based, and the author used Scripture to make his arguments. I enjoyed that he presented a balanced, whole-Bible view of the various points of theology that he touched on. He understood that sometimes it's not a matter of one or the other being more important but of both being equally important since they're interconnected.
Chapter two examined the five main leanings in the Western church today (like a social justice focus, prosperity focus, etc.) and how they have some things right but that their focus is off. This causes problems in the type of Christians they turn out. I understand why he put in this chapter--and he handled it well and didn't come across as condemning--but I felt the heart of the book was the topic of discipleship, which was covered in the rest of the book.
He promotes following Christ's example. He showed how reading the Bible is a way to grow in your relationship with Christ and how to let what you read in the Bible change your life. He described how surrendering to Christ's work in our heart and being obedient to God with our actions (even when we don't feel like it) leads to changes to our thoughts and emotions that work outward to effect our everyday actions. This leads to uncomplicated obedience to God that can change the world, one person at a time.
I was sometimes a little hesitant about how the author worded things when trying to describe an idea, but his conclusions were always spot-on and Bible-based. The book makes you think because he correctly doesn't try to simplify what is complex, but the information is not difficult to understand and he does get to "the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
I'd highly recommend this well-written book to all Christians. Instead of grabbing the latest "Christian Life" book, grab this discipleship book. It'll be worth it.
I received this book free from NavPress Publishers as part of their Blogger Review Program.
Chapter two examined the five main leanings in the Western church today (like a social justice focus, prosperity focus, etc.) and how they have some things right but that their focus is off. This causes problems in the type of Christians they turn out. I understand why he put in this chapter--and he handled it well and didn't come across as condemning--but I felt the heart of the book was the topic of discipleship, which was covered in the rest of the book.
He promotes following Christ's example. He showed how reading the Bible is a way to grow in your relationship with Christ and how to let what you read in the Bible change your life. He described how surrendering to Christ's work in our heart and being obedient to God with our actions (even when we don't feel like it) leads to changes to our thoughts and emotions that work outward to effect our everyday actions. This leads to uncomplicated obedience to God that can change the world, one person at a time.
I was sometimes a little hesitant about how the author worded things when trying to describe an idea, but his conclusions were always spot-on and Bible-based. The book makes you think because he correctly doesn't try to simplify what is complex, but the information is not difficult to understand and he does get to "the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
I'd highly recommend this well-written book to all Christians. Instead of grabbing the latest "Christian Life" book, grab this discipleship book. It'll be worth it.
I received this book free from NavPress Publishers as part of their Blogger Review Program.
August 22, 2013
The author is very clear on what it means to be obedient to God. Some parts of his theories are really just theological arguments and focus a lot on the legalistic part of it. I especially love the part he says about how churches are functioning based on Consumer Christianity. Sadly this is true in all of our communities. We cherry pick what we want from the gospel and ignore what we are supposed to do/not do to be a wholesome Christian. Good read for bible scholars
Read
February 20, 2016okay
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews