The Preemptive Resignation—A Get Out of Jail Free Card?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 02.25.2010Ending one’s membership in a church requires the consent of both parties. We join a church by the consent of the church, and we leave a church by the consent of the church.
Five Advantages of Church-Based Counseling
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010I want to argue that there are distinct advantages to doing specialized counseling in the context of one’s local church, and I would even propose that it should be the norm.
Grabbing a Dog by its Ears: The Role of Witnesses
By Stephen Matteucci | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 02.25.2010So who are these one or two witnesses? And why are they so important to the church?
Counseling and Discipleship
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010Every Christian should either be discipling someone else, be discipled by someone else, or be doing both.
Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum
By B. Johnson, D. Newkirk, P. Ryken, T. Ascol, W. Price | 9Marks Journal: Miscellaneous Articles | 02.25.2010I have learned that nothing brings greater joy to a pastor’s heart than a sinner who truly repents.
Churches Raising Up Pastors – Cornhill Training Course
By Christopher Ash | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.25.2010Here are the Cornhill Training Course’s answers submitted by Christopher Ash. The Cornhill Training Course is based out of London, England.
Sorting Out the Spiritual and the Physical
By Michael Emlet | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010In my counseling training, I began to see that the Scriptures provide this overarching view to any problem of life.
Looking at the Past and Present of Counseling
By David Powlison | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010People are willing to pay money to others who will never lead them to the Savior of the World. But that must change.
Contextualizing the Gospel in an Egalitarian World
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 02.25.2010A pastor should know his congregation, and a Christian should know his non-Christian friend, so they both can exercise wisdom and sensitivity in communicating the gospel.
Churches Raising Up Pastors – Charles Simeon Trust
By David Helm | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.25.2010Here are the Charles Simeon Trust’s answers (submitted by David Helm and Robert Kinney). The Simeon Trust is based out of Chicago, Illinois.
Twenty Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Counseling
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010By equipping your members to counsel one another, you enable them to do the front-line work of ministry. Here are twenty ways to cultivate a culture of counseling and discipleship in your church.
What Should Pastors Do with Fear, Medication, & Addiction
By Edward T. Welch | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010Are psychiatric medications sinful? Are they wise? Are they wrong? How should we view such things?
Churches Raising Up Pastors – Capitol Hill Baptist Church
By Ben Wright | 9Marks Journal: Raising Up the Next Generation of Pastors | 02.25.2010Here are the answers for the Capitol Hill Baptist Church internship program (submitted by Ben Wright). Capitol Hill Baptist Church is located in Washington, D. C.
Premarital Counseling, Pornography, and Marriage
By Winston T. Smith | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 02.25.2010I think one of the ways churches should work against the threat of pornography, very simply, is to start talking about it.
An Emerging Church Primer
By Justin Taylor | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 02.25.2010We need to remember that we are bound by the Word of God to speak the truth in love. Some of us are so wired to „speak the truth” that we fail to do it in love.
