Jonathan Leeman
Jonathan Leeman is the editorial director for 9Marks. After doing undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science, Jonathan began his career in journalism where he worked as an editor for an international economics magazine in Washington, D.C. Since his call to ministry, Jonathan has earned a master of divinity and a Ph.D. in theology and worked as an interim pastor.
Today he edits the 9Marks series of books as well as the 9Marks Journal and is the co-host of Pastors Talk. He has written for a number of publications and is the author or editor of a number of books.
Jonathan lives with his wife and four daughters in a suburb of Washington, DC and serves as an elder at Cheverly Baptist Church. He teaches adjunctively at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Reformed Theological Seminary. You can follow him on Twitter at @Jonathan Leeman.
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Books Authored or Edited
- The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love (Crossway, 2010)
- Reverberation: How God’s Word Gives Light, Affection, Freedom and Action to His Church (Moody, 2011)
- Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus (Crossway, 2012)
- Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus (Crossway, 2012)
- Editor: The Underestimated Gospel (B&H, 2014)
- Co-editor (with Mark Dever): Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age (B&H, 2015)
- Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule (IVP Academic, 2016)
- Don’t Fire Your Church Members: The Case for Congregationalism (B&H Academic, 2016)
- Understanding the Congregation’s Authority (B&H, 2016)
- Understanding Church Discipline (B&H, 2016)
- General Editor: Unashamed of the Gospel: The Conference Messages of T4G 2014 (B&H, 2016)
- The Word-Centered Church: How Scripture Brings Life and Growth to God’s People (formerly Reverberation) (Moody, 2017)
- How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics for a Divided Age (Thomas Nelson, 2018)
- The Rule of Love: How the Local Church Should Reflect God’s Love and Authority (Crossway, 2018)
- One Assembly: Rethinking the Multisite and Multiservice Church Models (Crossway, 2020)
- How Can I Love Church Members with Different Politics (with Andy Naselli) (Crossway, 2020)
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Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline? (Crossway, 2020)
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Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential (with Collin Hansen) (Crossway, 2021)
- What Is the Church’s Mission? (Crossway, 2022)
- Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing (Crossway, 2023)
Chapters Authored
- “The Church” in Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, edited by G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson, Benjamin L. Gladd, and Andrew David Naselli (Baker, 2023)
- “Church Membership” and “Church and State” in A Handbook of Theology, edited by Daniel L. Akin, David S. Dockery, and Nathan A. Finn (B&H, 2023)
- “Baptists in Babylon: On the Role of Politics in Modern Baptist Life,” in Baptist Political Theology, edited by Thomas S. Kidd, Paul D. Miller, and Andrew T. Walker (B&H, 2023)
- “Soteriological Mission: Focusing in on the Mission of Redemption” plus “Responses,” in Four Views on the Church’s Mission, by Jonathan Leeman, Christopher J. H. Wright, John R. Franke, and Peter J. Leithart, edited by Jason S. Sexton (Zondervan, 2017)
A selection of articles from Jonathan:
From 9Marks:
- Our Regular “Mailbag” Feature
- Don’t Be a 9Marxist!
- How Biblical Theology Guards and Guides Churches
- What Does “First Among Equals” Mean on an Elder Board
- Six Principles For Youth Ministry
- Twelve Reasons Church Membership Matters
- A Church Discipline Primer
- Why We Sing
- Can Women Teach Under the Authority of the Elders?
- Twenty-Two Problems with Multi-site Churches
- The Good News of the Father’s Conditional Love for the Son
- High Schoolers: What You Really Want In a College
- What Is a Local Church?
- What Is Church Membership?
- Violence Against Women and Church Discipline
- A Church and Churches: Independence
- A Church and Churches: Integration
- Churches Cooperating in Discipline
- The Corporate Component of Conversion
- The Underestimated Pastoral Power of a Proper Doctrine of Conversion
- Elder Meeting Attitudes
- A Discipler’s Daily Itinerary
- Pastors, Homosexuality, and Same-Sex Marriage
- A Meal Says More than You Think
- The Twin Temptations of Pragmatism and Authoritarianism
- Regulative Like Jazz
- How Church Discipline Will Save the Parachurch
- The Preemptive Resignation—A Get Out of Jail Free Card?
- Theological Critique of Multi-Site: What Exactly Is a “Church”?
- The Alternative: Why Don’t We Plant?
- The Doctrine of the Church in a Post-Indiana America
- A Word of Empathy, Warning, and Counsel for “Narrow” Complementarians
- Biblical Manhood and Womanhood—Or Christlikeness?
- Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning
- Essential and Indispensable: Women and the Mission of the Church
- Church Membership Is an Office and a Job
- Why Complementarians Should Be “First Responders” Against Abuse
- Fighting the Temptations of Successful Leadership
- 13 Principles for Pastoring Through Political Turmoil
- What Makes a Vote Moral or Immoral? The Ethics of Voting
- Pastors on Social Media
- How Long Should a Sermon Be?
- Defending Sound Doctrine Against the Deconstruction of American Evangelicalism
- How Movements Can Undermine Churches and Hurt Their Own Cause
From Tabletalk Magazine:
From The Gospel Coalition:
- Dear Donald Miller
- How Pastor Mark Passes Out Authority
- 12 Lessons from the Race Conversation
- Love and the Inhumanity of Same Sex Marriage
- Create a Contrast Culture in Your Church
- Not Two Kingdoms, But Two Ages
- Are You a Universal Church-er Or a Local Church-er: A Review of Gerald Bray’s “The Church”
- 16 Ways to Promote Unity Amid Political Disagreement
- More Than Equality
- Do Evangelicals Need a Better Gospel?
- Doing Political Theology, Waiting on King Jesus
- The Relationship of Church and State
- The Church: Universal and Local
- The Church Gathered
- Church Discipline
- All articles
From Canon and Culture:
- Politics and the Pulpit: Pastors and Political Candidates
- Christianity Packs Its Office and Leaves the Building
- What Would an Ideal Polity Look Like from a Christian Perspective?
- Is the Gay Rights Movement the Rightful Heir to the Civil Rights Tradition?
- The Meaning of Sex
- Abortion and The Problem of Personhood
From Miscellaneous:
- How Churches Should Engage Culture (Radical)
- A Traditional Protestant Formulation of Sola Fide as the Source of Political Unity (Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies)
- Preaching Christ from the Epistles (Preaching Source)
- Why the Southern Baptist Convention Shouldn’t Have Allowed Mike Pence to Speak (Washington Post)
- Why repentant pastors should be forgiven but not restored to the pulpit (Washington Post)
- The Two Kinds of Government that Show Up in the Bible (Christianity Today)
- How Freedom Became an American Idol (Christianity Today)
- An Exceptional Crisis: Review of Wilsey’s American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion (Providence)
- The “No Religious Test” Clause and Profoundly Religious Politics (Religious Freedom Institute)
- A Baptist View of the Royal Priesthood of All Believers (SBTS)
- Conservatives Clash on the Role of Government (Providence)
- Bringing the Apocalypse to Drag Queen Story Hour (Providence)
- We Come in Peace (Primer)
- The DC Mayor Doesn’t Get to Define Church (Christianity Today)
- Evangelicalism, Christian Identity, and Church Membership (Mere Orthdoxy)
