Pastor, Not Entrepreneur, Part 2
By Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023You can lead a church plant and not be an entrepreneur. But you shouldn’t lead a church plant if you’re not a pastor.
Widows: The Untapped Resource in Your Church
By Keith Collier | 11.07.2023Don’t just minister to widows; mobilize them. Don’t discount them; deploy them.
Catholicity and the Church Membership Process
By John Sarver | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 11.06.2023Meaningful membership upholds glad-hearted catholicity.
Why Not to Plant Churches
By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.01.2023Yes, plant churches. But do so after counting the cost.
When Catholicity Leads to Compromise
By Jonathan Worsley | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 10.30.2023For all the good of catholicity, an over-realized catholicity is potentially poisonous.
Powerfully Meek Leaders
By Davy Ellison | 10.27.2023In our meek Savior we see both restraint and boldness in perfect harmony.
Martin Bucer as a Cooperating Pastor
By Jason Lee | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 10.26.2023Against the Reformation’s backdrop of such vehemence and occasional violence, there are also sterling examples of Christian partnership and catholicity.
Lessons Learned from a Church Planter’s Wife
By Jenny Manley | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.25.2023Here are five lessons I have learned in the decade since I first arrived in an unfamiliar city with my husband, who had the task of planting a new church.
Sending Out Future Leaders Strategically
By Matt Rogers | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.20.2023Pastors developing future leaders can help using these seven diagnostic questions.
Church Planting Roundtable: Counting the Cost
By C. Greggsen, J. Joseph, J. Chatman, T. Ross, W. Forrest, Z. San | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.19.2023Six church planters—national and international—explain how they wish they had counted the cost, which yields counsel for the rest of us.
The Role of Women in Healthy Church Formation
By Madeline Arthington | 10.19.2023Here are twelve examples of how women can help the church based on Madeline Arthington’s experience in a Central Asian congregation.
Partnering Together to Plant
By Nate Akin | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.13.2023While churches are independent and autonomous, they also are interdependent for the sake of those who don’t know the Lord.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Advice for Members on Church Plants
By John Joseph | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.11.2023Here are four clear reasons why you should consider not joining a new church plant.
Cooperating Under Persecution
By Paul Plantinga | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 10.10.2023I see a strong and growing catholicity among persecuted churches in China that churches in freer environments could learn from.
Pastor, Not Entrepreneur
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.06.2023Emphasizing the acumen of Wall Street and the values of Silicon Valley in what to look for in a planter distracts us from paying attention to the New Testament’s emphases—who a man is.
