Not Your Grandma’s Sunday School
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Who wants to sit and listen to a lecture about theology? Who wants to hear one person yack for an hour in the place of the community contributing? You’d be surprised.
Sunday School and Its Rivals
By Trevin Wax | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011It’s true that the elements of fellowship, accountability, and missional living all contribute to the shaping of a disciple. But what gives these their power is the Word of God.
How Sunday School Can Help Your Preaching
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Sunday School makes you a better systematic theologian, which in turn makes you a better applier of God’s Word.
How Sunday School Can Change Your Church’s Culture
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Over the last decade our church has discovered an unexpected tool for changing a culture: adult Sunday School.
Why Sunday School Lost its Edge
By Ed Stetzer | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Has our current culture so changed that Sunday school will not be able to avoid extinction?
Why You Want Sunday School
By B. Jamieson, J. Pennington | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011The bottom line here is, if not Sunday School, then where? If you don’t have Sunday school, where are you going to teach people how to study the Bible?
Pastors’ Forum: Do’s and Don’ts of Church Reform
By B. Johnson, G. Kell, M. Dever, M. Lawrence, M. McKinley, T. Anyabwile | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.28.2011What to do—and what not to do—in the midst of church reform.
Five Unexpected Lessons in Church Revitalization
By Brian Croft | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.28.2011The gospel can not only build a local church, but rebuild it also—sometimes in surprising, unexpected ways.
Five Factors that Brought Life to a Dying Church
By J. D. Greear | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011Only God brings life to dead things. But here are some lessons I learned that I believe contributed to our church’s revitalization.
What Makes a Church Reform Possible?
By John Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011When a church is transformed, the gospel surges forward as the community is confronted with a genuine corporate witness for Christ.
A Roadmap for Church Reform
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011Here’s a short roadmap on the road to church reform that might help you keep your bearings as you move forward.
Be a Tortoise, not a Hare
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011Perhaps seminaries should offer a class in the exegesis of Aesop. Too often, pastors come to a new congregation and shoot off at a hare’s pace to turn the church around.
The Pros and Cons of Planting and Revitalizing
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011Church planting and church revitalizing share the same goal: to see a God-glorifying church established where it does not currently exist.
Why Revitalize?
By Matt Schmucker | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011If you don’t want to be a reformer, you don’t want to be a pastor.
The Bible’s Burden for Church Revitalization
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.27.2011Like Paul, we should have a burden to revitalize churches that are in various stages of sickness. And we’ve got no shortage of those churches, especially in America.
