David Young serves as the lead minister for the North Boulevard Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He is a very popular speaker nationally for churches, universities, and ministries. He holds the B.A. from Freed-Hardeman University, the M.A. from Harding School of Theology, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in New Testament from Vanderbilt University. He is the former host of the New Day Television Program, a board member for the Renew.org Network, and the author of several books, including A Grand Illusion (Renew Publications), A New Day (NB Press), The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, (Fortress Press, co-authored with Michael Strickland) and now, King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience-Based Discipleship (Zondervan). David and his wife Julie have two married children.

Bill Hull has published more books on discipleship (20+) in the English language than any other national figure. He has spent his adult life as a discipleship evangelist. His twenty years as a local church pastor, his national leadership roles and publishing testify to his commitment. Bill believes that the church faces a very practical problem, we keep trying to reach the world without first making disciples. We are preaching a gospel that separates conversion from discipleship. When this happens, we make disciples who don’t believe in discipleship. The solution is found in rebuilding a gospel that embraces discipleship. Because the gospel we believe in determines the kind of disciples we make. Bill’s core message is that “All who are called to salvation are called to discipleship, no exceptions, no excuses.” As Bill often says, “Some believe you can have conversion without discipleship, I believe the proof of conversion is discipleship.”Bill is co-founder and leader of the Bonhoeffer Project. Its purpose is to create disciple making leaders. For a list of Bill’s other writings go to Billhull.net.

Renée Webb Sproles is from Murfreesboro, TN, where she directed The School of Christian Thought for five years at North Boulevard Church. She has spent 15 years in leadership in home school education, at the Discipleship Tutorial in Murfreesboro, where she teaches government, economics, personal finance, study skills, and English grammar and writing. She is the mother of 3 and with her husband, David, she has co-taught parenting classes for 20 years and currently teaches a marriage and family class of 100 students each week. Renée is the author of On     Gender: What the Bible Says about Men and Women (Renew, 2019).   

Ben is the lead pastor of Bridge Pointe Church in Atlanta. He graduated from the U.S Military Academy at West Point. Ben credits much of his leadership development from his days as a cadet at West Point and Captain of the Army football team. Ben holds a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degree from the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University.  He also holds Doctorate in Holistic Theology.  In addition to leading   Bridge Pointe Church, Ben also served as a chaplain for the Veterans Medical Center and as an adjunct professor of Leadership at Mercer University.