Church Planting Roundtable: Counting the Cost
By C. Greggsen, J. Joseph, J. Chatman, T. Ross, W. Forrest, Z. San | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.19.2023Six church planters—national and international—explain how they wish they had counted the cost, which yields counsel for the rest of us.
The Role of Women in Healthy Church Formation
By Madeline Arthington | 10.19.2023Here are twelve examples of how women can help the church based on Madeline Arthington’s experience in a Central Asian congregation.
Partnering Together to Plant
By Nate Akin | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.13.2023While churches are independent and autonomous, they also are interdependent for the sake of those who don’t know the Lord.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Advice for Members on Church Plants
By John Joseph | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.11.2023Here are four clear reasons why you should consider not joining a new church plant.
Cooperating Under Persecution
By Paul Plantinga | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 10.10.2023I see a strong and growing catholicity among persecuted churches in China that churches in freer environments could learn from.
Pastor, Not Entrepreneur
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.06.2023Emphasizing the acumen of Wall Street and the values of Silicon Valley in what to look for in a planter distracts us from paying attention to the New Testament’s emphases—who a man is.
Book Review: The Shepherd Leader at Home, by Timothy Z. Witmer
By Paul Alexander | 10.05.2023Tim Witmer’s book is timely; but it’s not social critique or theological treatise. It’s simple, practical, Christian wisdom, rooted in biblical truth and love.
How Catholicity Compels Missions
By J. Kelly, J. Bowman | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 10.04.2023Catholicity is not only an anchor to help the church remain faithful to the apostolic faith, but it also provides a theological basis for global missions.
What Is Catholicity and What Does It Require?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 09.29.2023What do our churches mean by “catholic” when we recite the Nicene creed (381) and declare our belief in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church?
Are Ecclesiological Convictions and Catholic Affirmations Mutually Exclusive?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 09.25.2023The charge of anti-catholicity, when used to critique ecclesial convictions, evinces an inadequate understanding of catholicity.
Ecclesiological Triage
By Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 09.19.2023How do we decide when and to what extent to cooperate with churches that are more or less like-minded?
Fundamentalism May Feel Safe, But It’s Shortsighted
By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 09.11.2023A narrow fundamentalism blinds us to healthy catholicity and theological error due to pride in a sterile, tightly-packaged belief system.
A Catholic Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 09.05.2023The church’s catholicity is the simple acknowledgement that the church is not confined to any one place or people.
How Catholicity Promotes Church-Centered Missions
By Ryan Robertson | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 08.28.2023How can pastors encourage their congregations to appreciate ecclesiological distinctives without discarding a spirit of catholicity?
Pastors and Social Media
By Samuel D. James | 08.24.2023When pastors log on to social media and berate others relentlessly, post incessantly, or communicate inappropriately, it is very likely that red flags were visible before the point of crisis.
