Why a Church Constitution Is More Than a Necessary Evil
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Once you’re in a leadership position, it becomes clear pretty fast that solid rules aren’t a necessary evil at all; they’re an indispensable weapon for safeguarding the unity of the church.
How a Lack of Trellis Undermines Ministry
By Jonathan Rourke | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Does the Bible have much to say about church structure? In short, yes!
How to Have a Well-Run Elders’ Meeting
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022What can we do to make elders’ meetings excellent?
How To Use a Care List in Elders’ and Members’ Meetings
By Alex Bloomfield | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022A care list engages the whole church in both corrective discipline and caring for the weak.
LGBTQ+ Policies: What Do We Do about Youth Group?
By Zach Carter | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Increasingly, pastors will be asked to make complex moral decisions related to LGBTQ+ issues. Policies delegate the decision-making process, creating more time for pastors to exhort, instruct, and disciple individuals on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Sabbaticals for the Shepherds
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Pastors should take regular sabbaticals and plan them well.
Sample Constitution and Elder Meeting Bylaws
9Marks | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.20223ABC Constitution Since it pleased Almighty God, by His Holy Spirit, to call certain of His servants to unite here in 1894 under the name [NAME OF CHURCH] of [CITY, … keep reading…
What Job Titles Should Churches Use? Two Simple Rules
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.23.2022Our church structures and job titles should conform to biblical patterns. These patterns are a blessing, not a burden.
Pastors Teach
By David Mathis | 09.14.2022We need men who are eager to teach. Not just men willing to have their arm bent once in a while to fill a slot.
It Takes a Christian Village
By Blair Linne | 09.12.2022“To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, … keep reading…
What Makes a Good Hymn?
By David and Barbara Leeman | 09.09.2022Erik Routley, a renowned British hymnologist in the 1950s, routinely said a good hymn should be “well-written, well-chosen, and well-sung.”
Treasuring the Trail of Translation: Why Read the Greek New Testament Before You Teach the English One
By Matt Sliger | 09.06.2022If you’ve been taught the language, read the Greek New Testament before you teach the English one. And if you haven’t been taught the language, attempt to learn it for four reasons.
The Fruit Grown in a Flock by Pastoral Encouragement
By Bob Johnson | 09.02.2022Encouragement is incredibly attractive. It’s a godly grace that reinforces gospel fruit. Younger pastors may not realize how important it is.
Only Use Authority in the Fear of God
By Mark Dever | 08.29.2022Is all authority abusive? Is all authority—by virtue of one person having power over another person—in its very nature, abusive?
The Church: Universal and Local
By Jonathan Leeman | 08.25.2022Christians throughout history have sometimes emphasized the local or the universal church to the neglect of the other, but a biblical posture emphasizes both.
