With the launch of the third book in his “Following . . .” series, Dr Peter Roennfeldt talked with Bookshelf about what he has learned in writing these books and his observations of the growing disciple- making movement in the South Pacific. 

Q What do you understand as “the apostles’ vision”?
That there be no place left where Christ is not known. Before His crucifixion, Jesus had systematically sown the seeds of His movement across the region—Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Decapolis, Gaulantis, Phoenicia and Perea. He commissioned His followers to multiply disciples in all “nations”—and the word used (ethne) indicates they were to take the gospel into every relational stream or “tribe, language and people” (see Matthew 28:18–20; Revelation 14:6). It was a bold vision. Read more…