What Is a Church?
By Chris Hutchison | 05.25.2023What is a church? How might we answer that question? Where should we start?
A Response to a Review of ‘No Shortcut to Success’
By Matt Rhodes | 05.16.2023We asked Matt Rhodes to respond to the International Mission Board’s critique of his book ‘No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions.’
4 Reasons You Can Preach the Same Text 2 (or 3 or 4) Times
By Sean Nolan | 05.15.2023There are reasons to be confident when returning to the same text multiple times.
A Guide to the Journal
9Marks | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.30.2023Since it’s unusually long, we thought a more careful guide to the Journal might help.
Ten Diagnostic Questions for the Potential Ideologue
By Ken Barbic | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.29.2023Be wary of anyone who casts their political strategy and positions on less clear matters with a “thus saith the Lord” level of certainty.
A New Christian Authoritarianism?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.29.2023Creeping politicization implies a creeping authoritarianism.
Say No to Christian Nationalism
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.29.2023If you don’t get your doctrine of the church right, you’re going to get your doctrine of the government and the nation wrong.
What Authority Has God Given to Governments?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.29.2023The government’s job description: To administer the justice requisite for protecting human life, secure the conditions necessary for fulfilling the dominion mandate, and provide a platform for God’s people to declare God’s perfect judgment and salvation.
Samples of Public Prayers Prayed by Pastors
By J. Owens, J. Sanchez, M. Dever, R. Shannon | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Read the prayers of four pastors at city, state, and national governmental gatherings.
Charlemagne and the Legacy of Christian Political Violence
By Dustin Asbury | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023When the church possesses coercive power, it invariably becomes warped and corrupted.
How I Went Too Far with Politics
By Dave Brown | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023How do we as Christians know when we’re putting too much hope in politics?
A 1689 Baptist Perspective: Confessionalism and Theonomy
By Justin Perdue | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Confessional Baptist theology disputes theonomy in three areas.
What Is a Greater Grief: A Compromised Church or a Compromised Nation?
By Jeremy Walker | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Which more afflicts the heart of God’s people—a morally declining country or a spiritually diseased congregation?
John Gill on Theonomy
By Ian Hugh Clary | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Baptists who care about the integrity of their own tradition would do well to leave theonomy to the side and embrace the thinking of theologians like Gill whose thought well-represented the best of both Reformed and Baptist theology.
Theonomy: Serious Theology, Serious Politics, Seriously Wrong
By Al Mohler | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Theonomy risks conflating the identity of the church and civil society as a matter of law and polity.
