This book is written to show the connections between discipleship ministry in the "West", and the kinds of ministry values that missionaries often employ in doing discipleship cross culturally. With the world changing at such a fast pace, I think it is helpful for Christians to look toward specialists in cross cultural ministry. The book is written well with a lot of examples from around the world. A lot of the book is built on the foundation of "creation theology" which is something I am a bit uncomfortable with, thus some of the conclusions are based off of this "high anthropology." But the book gives a lot of ideas for discipleship and overall I think the book's message is needed.