Membership
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?
9Marks asked four seminary professors to each recommend five of their favorite books on biblical hermeneutics.
Keeping missionaries as members at the home church can hurt the missionary’s ability to meaningfully join a church on the field.
People may point to busyness or religious hypocrisy as reasons not to attend church, but Sweatman and Barraclough expose a deeper cause—individualism.
From my time in an unreached context, I’ve noticed that Christians often neglect four aspects of evangelism that the Bible and church history treat as essential.
9Marks asked a couple of pastors who have thought a lot about corporate worship for book recommendations on the subject.
“Practicing the Way” left me with a Jesus that would make for a great life coach, but not the Savior and Lord as revealed in God’s Word.
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?