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Raise up Leaders
It’s the Holy Spirit’s job to make overseers. However, he often uses pastors to this end.
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How to Evangelize Cross Culturally
Here are three lessons one church has learned living and ministering in an ultra-multi-cultural environment.
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Forum: Perspectives on Heaven from the Persecuted Church
We asked pastors around the world this question: "How have you encouraged Christians experiencing significant persecution with the hope of heaven?"
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The Danger of Sending Unqualified Missionaries
What does John Folmar — the senior pastor of United Christian Church of Dubai in the Middle East — want to say to American churches and missions organizations?
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Send Missionaries & Inspire Senders
Here are three practical ways our congregations can be staging areas for gospel advancement into the unreached places of the world.
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Stories of Restoration after Church Discipline
We asked three pastors to share a story of restoration—that is, someone who had been restored to membership after being disciplined for unrepentant sin.
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How should churches pursue contextualization biblically?
The best way to contextualize is to be rigorously biblical. Because the Bible speaks transculturally, start with the Bible.
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Missions – John Folmar | Session 1
Each year, the 9Marks at Southeastern Conference examines a particular topic related to church health and provides biblical and practical help fellow pastors and leaders.
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Anatomy of a Church Merger
Four things I learned from our successful and fruitful church merger—almost 20 years after it happened.
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Building a Multi-Cultural Ministry on Gospel Doctrine
Robust truth will keep churches and friendships together amid their diversity, whereas lowest-common-denominator theology promotes strife and feebleness.
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Voices from Abroad: Biblical Faithfulness and Cultural Sensitivity
We asked a handful of pastors around the world the following question: “You are familiar with American churches, yet you pastor in a non-American context. What has your present experience taught you about how to be biblically faithful yet culturally sensitive when it comes to selecting the songs that your church sings?” Their responses are […]
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Three Lessons for Cross-Cultural Evangelism
How can you evangelize across cultures? Communicate clearly, proclaim the Word, use the church.