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.

Andrew Hardy has been involved in planting missional churches and developing missional leaders for about thirty years. He has had extensive experience in leading churches, as well as having been the chair of the National Leadership Team of a UK-based Christian denomination. He has spent the last fourteen years in designing and offering degree-level missional leadership programs for a UK-based mission college. He currently works as Director of Research for ForMission College. He has also been extensively involved in mentoring missional church leaders and doing consultancy work in the field of missional education and missional church change management processes.