español 9Marks Explained : A Letter From Mark Dever

Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Corporate Witness

"What must pastors do to help their members regain a sense of the church’s corporate witness, which is so vital to evangelism? What stands in the way of that recovery?" Answers from Read more >

A Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Explaining the Gospel

We asked a roundtable of pastors and theologians two questions: Read more >

Thinking About Evangelism Means Thinking About the Church

By Ryan Townsend
Preface to the 9Marks Series on Evangelism The aim of this series of nine articles is to provide a biblical, God-centered framework for understanding and doing evangelism. The main idea in this series of articles is that biblical evangelism begins with the church. To put it another way, the local church itself is the best and biblically-prescribed “evangelism program.” Read more >

What in the World is the Missional Church?

By Jonathan Leeman
Talk about being behind the curve. Several months ago, I began noticing how often the words "missional church" kept showing up in evangelical books and blogs. Reading up on the topic since then has left me feeling a bit like Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving’s colonial American character who dozed off one afternoon as a loyal subject of King George III, only to wake up twenty years later and find that he had a foot long beard and that something called the Revolutionary War had been fought. Read more >

Class XIII: Corporate Evangelism

By Greg Gilbert
Christians today often see evangelism as either 100 percent the job of the church or 100 percent their own job. So either they structure church life around the needs and interests of non-Christians and then invite people to church; or they see the church's job as training Christians to share their faith with family and friends. Read more >

Biblical and Systematic Confusion Yields Gospel Delusions

By Jonathan Leeman
The difference between biblical theology and systematic theology is like difference between my wife recounting a conversation she had with someone and my recounting such a conversation. Read more >

Three Testimonies of Hospitality

"When have you seen acts of hospitality commend the gospel to outsiders (a concrete illustration)?" Answers from Ken Sande, Donald Whitney, and Ryan Townsend   Ken Sande Hospitality leading to redemptive discipline was a key to my father’s conversion. Read more >

A Meal Says More than You Think

By Jonathan Leeman
A couple years ago, I was asked to do a three minute devotion on hospitality. That sounded like a good project. I knew that hospitality is mentioned several times in the New Testament, and it was a subject to which I had never given much thought. Yet I was grateful that other folks at church on the "hospitality committee" stir the lemonade and put out the cookies every Sunday. Perhaps I could put some theology behind the lemonade and cookies. Read more >

How Christians Can Combat Slavery Today

By Priya Abraham
The word "slavery" conjures many images in our minds: Africans bent over cotton in the Deep South; filthy ships stuffed with shackled humans; and this year, perhaps, the moving film Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce’s 20-year battle to abolish Britain’s slave trade. Read more >

Coming Soon to a Planet Near You: Lausanne III

By David Wells
Plans are now afoot for the Third International Congress on World Evangelization. It will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2010. Read more >