How Church Discipline Will Save the Parachurch
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011Jesus authorized only one institution on earth to clean the kingdom gutters and unclog its pipes—the local church.
Praying for Parachurch Ministries
By D. A. Carson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011Should there be any difference between the way we pray for a local church and the way we pray for a parachurch organization? No and yes.
For the Church: How Can You Support Parachurch Ministries?
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The most vital thing we can do to help the parachurch is to foster healthy, biblical churches.
For the Church: Which Parachurch Ministries Should You Support?
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011Don’t support just any parachurch organization. Instead, use them to support efforts, individuals, or teams that you trust.
For the Parachurch: Know the Difference Between Families & Soccer Teams
By Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The gospel helps us to see that belonging to a church is like belonging to a family, while working for a parachurch is more like playing for a soccer team.
Are Parachurch Ministries Evil? Bad and Good Arguments for the Parachurch
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The failure of particular local churches may be the best, most enduring reason for the need for solid, gospel-centered, evangelistic parachurch ministries.
How Parachurch Ministries Go Off the Rails
By Carl Trueman | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The parachurch is not the church. It does not do what the church does, and it should not supplant the church in the minds and lives of those involved in its work.
Nine Marks of a Healthy Parachurch Ministry
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011A healthy parachurch ministry knows that it exists primarily to protect the church.
Staying for the Glory of God: The Sibbes, Simeon and Stott Model
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010Do we as pastors consider staying for the glory of God?
What’s Right About Elders? Part 2 of 2 on Finding a Pastor
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010Click here for the first of two articles: “What’s Wrong with Search Committees? Part 1 of 2 on Finding a Pastor”
Staying to the Glory of God: One Preacher’s Death Wish
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010I’m arguing that instead of asking, “Why stay long-term?” we should be asking, “Why leave?”
Tips for an Interim Pastor
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010Above all else, interim pastors should do these two things: preach the Word and love the people.
You Might Have the Wrong Candidate If…
By Dennis Newkirk | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010You might have the wrong pastoral candidate if . . .
What Not to Do When You’re the New Guy
By Walter Price | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010Your ministry should not be ego-centric, but Christo-centric. Let it be driven by the Lord’s desires for your present church, not by the problems of your former church.
What’s Wrong With Search Committees? Part 1 of 2 on Finding a Pastor
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Pastoral Moves | 12.20.2010If churches were healthier, we’d never need to call together pastoral search committees.