Rubel Shelly serves as president of Rochester College in Rochester Hills, MI. He is the author or co-author of more than thirty books, including The Jesus Proposal (Leafwood, 2003)...view moreRubel Shelly serves as president of Rochester College in Rochester Hills, MI. He is the author or co-author of more than thirty books, including The Jesus Proposal (Leafwood, 2003), The Jesus Community (Leafwood, 2005), and The Names of Jesus (Howard Books, 1999). He ministered for twenty-seven years with the Woodmont Hills Family of God in Nashville, TN. During that time, he has also taught at Lipscomb University, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Tennessee State University. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He and his wife, Myra, have three grown children who have given them nine wonderful grandchildren to love and spoil.view less