Jon Scott Birch

Jon Scott Birch is an interdenominational discipleship pastor and has been teaching, counseling, and discipling for over twenty-five years. His personal ministry, Proximity: Recovering the Lost Art of Discipleship, is a discipleship-driven mission aiming to recover and promote the early church model as recorded in the biblical book of Acts where Jesus Christ, close relationships, and discipleship-apologetics were the pillars of Christianity. Jon’s passion is seeing people come to know Christ personally, reclaiming their identity in Him, understanding discipleship as a way of life and not as a term to define or mere Bible study. He graduated Christian World College of Theology (Salisbury, MD) and has studied psychology with extensive experience in counseling and spiritual warfare. Primarily a writer/teacher, Jon has published several books and enjoys reading/studying Scripture, history, historical fiction, and science fiction/fantasy with a particular focus on J.R.R. Tolkien’s scholarship and legendarium. And then there is coffee...