DAVID E. BJORK (MA, DEA, MDiv, PhD) works for World Partners in collaboration with Cooperative Studies (CS), a North American NGO that promotes collaboration between members of the international higher education community. He is a lecturer in Religious Sciences at l'Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon. He is also the director of the doctoral program of Intercultural Studies at the Cameroon Faculty of Evangelical Theology (FACTEC) and professor of Missiology at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology (BEST). Dr Bjork has published many articles and is the author of Unfamiliar Paths (William Carey Library, 1997) and co-author with Stephen March of As Pilgrims Progress (Aventine Press, 2006). David and his wife, Diane now live in Cameroon and continue to accompany others in discipleship, as they have done for the last forty years.

The growth of Christianity in recent decades has been remarkable, but has it been growth with depth? Are our communities of faith, our churches, creating and nurturing deeply committed followers of Jesus? This book was born out of the realization that churches throughout the world, despite their numerous evangelization and spiritual development activities, are struggling to produce true disciples of Jesus. How can we explain why so many of us in our churches are so unlike Jesus in the way we think and act? What can we change in our understanding and practices to facilitate life transformation and spiritual multiplication? And as Christians what are we called to do? In answering these questions the author proposes an alternative ecclesial and missional paradigm, that will enable us to better equip and mobilize believers in the mission that Christ gave to his disciples and gives to us all, to make disciples!