Help! I’ve Been Asked to Deliver the Announcements
By Dave Cook | 07.07.2022Sunday morning announcements at church may be understated, but good ones set the tone for a worship service and keep the congregation informed. The time it takes to do them well is worth it.
Aspiring Pastors Need Encouragement, Too: 5 Ways Paul Encouraged Timothy
By Zack DiPrima | 07.06.2022Encouragement from anyone is always good. Encouragement from seasoned saints—especially pastors—builds up young leaders in a pronounced way.
How to Have Fruitful Conversations About the Immigrant Church
By John Lee | 07.01.2022Having a productive conversation about the immigrant church requires both cultural and ecclesiological fluency.
On Keeping Your Greek and Hebrew in Ministry
By Matt Emadi | 06.27.2022Are the original languages really that important?
A Conflict of Visions: Comparing Rick Warren’s SBC Speech and Juan Sanchez’s Convention Sermon
By Alex DiPrima | 06.23.2022Rick Warren’s brief address and Juan Sanchez’s convention sermon at the SBC annual meeting represent two different, competing visions of ministry and the local church.
Revival and Revivalism in Youth Ministry
By Mike McGarry | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022Passing the faith from generation to generation is both simpler and more difficult than revivalists prophesy.
How “Above Reproach” Lay Elders Saved My Ministry
By Gary Kirst | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022These men, though imperfect, were above reproach. I knew that. And now they were unified in confronting me for my foolish pride.
Book Review: The Heart of the Gospel: A.B. Simpson, the Fourfold Gospel, and Late Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Theology, by Bernie A. Van De Walle
By Kevin Niebuhr | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022While I’m not an admirer of all the positions and practices Simpson had throughout his lifetime, I am grateful for Van De Walle’s scholarly work.
Is “Above Reproach” Its Own Qualification, or a Qualification of the All the Others?
By Jeffrey Jeffson | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022Does Paul’s requirement that an elder be “above reproach” act as its own qualification, or does Paul mean for it to qualify all the other qualifications?
The Revival We Need and the Unregenerate Church Members We Have
By Jim Elliff | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022To illustrate our problem, in 2018, one beloved historic Southern Baptist Church whose name most Baptists would recognize claimed 30,000 members and an average of 6,801 attending.
Book Review: Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, 1750-1858, by Iain Murray
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022I commend Iain Murray’s classic book to all present and aspiring church leaders, and to any Christian who likes to ask, “How did we get here?”
Why Does a Pastor Being “Above Reproach” Matter?
By Peter Hess | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022In the church of Jesus Christ, character matters for leadership. No character, no qualification to lead.
Why Is Being “Above Reproach” Necessary in Hard Times?
By David Doran Jr. | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022By God’s grace, you want shepherds who live with such obvious Spirit-dependence and fruit that false accusations fall flat.
What Does Being “Above Reproach” Mean?
By Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022To be above reproach is, arguably, the most general of all the elder qualifications, so it has to be defined more generally.
Pray for Revival—in the Other Guy’s Church
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Pursuing Revival While Avoiding Revivalism | 06.14.2022God has a big plan for his whole world, and God will accomplish his work in the world. Sometimes he may do that through us. Sometimes he may do it through the church down the street.
