Week #8—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Do Justice
By Jonathan Leeman | 10.19.2016So what exactly is justice? That’s what we’re going to consider in today’s class.
Week #7—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Establish Peace
By Jonathan Leeman | 10.13.2016Government renders judgment to establish peace, order, and prosperity so that the church might do what God calls it to do.
Week #6—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Not Play God
By J. Leeman, N. Rodriguez | 10.07.2016For a government to “play God” is to pressure its citizens into idolatry.
Authority: God’s Good and Dangerous Gift
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016Authority is better than you think and worse than you think. It is God’s good and dangerous gift.
The Shift from Authority to Preference—And Its Consequences for the Church
By Os Guinness | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016Our modern world tends to undermine all forms of authority other than its own and replaces them with the sense that all responses are merely a matter of preference.
Is There Such a Thing as Church Authority?
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016Here are seven points regarding the keys of the kingdom, and how local churches exercise authority through their use.
Delighting in Authority: How to Create a Culture of Happy Complementarians
By Whitney Woollard | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016It’s time for the church to create space in its local assemblies for strong females who happily affirm authority while advocating for more opportunities for women to flourish according to their gifts and qualification.
Is It Self-Serving to Teach on Your Own Authority?
By B. Johnson, J. Yong | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016We asked two pastors the question: Is it self-serving to teach on a pastor’s authority? If not, then how should you do it?
Views of Authority from around the World
By J. Fang, M. Gilbart-Smith, R. Hsu, T. J. Santos Filho | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016We asked three pastors to reflect on how the people of their nation—Brazil, Great Britain, and China—tend to respond to exercised authority.
How a Roman Catholic View of Church Authority Compares to a Protestant View
By Gregg R. Allison | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016What’s the difference between a Protestant understanding of local church authority and a Roman Catholic one?
Authority, Not Authoritarian
By Taylor Turkington | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016As a woman deeply thankful for the calling and care of elders, I’d like to offer four questions that may help you recognize if you are drifting into domineering.
Authority and Its Abuse
By Shai Linne | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016The greater the degree of authority, the greater the pain inflicted when it is abused. If it’s devastating in the world, how much more so in the church of Jesus Christ?
Redeeming Authority for Those Who’ve Only Known Its Abuse
By Mez McConnell | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016As a pastor who has also suffered abuse, how do I respond to the abused sufferers and anti-authoritarian people in my care in a way that’s biblical, loving, and true to God’s revealed Word?
The Sword and the Shepherd’s Staff: Reporting Sexual Abuse to the Authorities
By Travis Wussow | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016It is not a pastor’s job to adjudicate the dispute; instead, the pastor’s job is to walk with his people through the implications created by the state’s justice system.
A Healthy Church Member Is a Humble Follower
By Thabiti Anyabwile | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016Leadership in the local church is established by God for the blessing of his people. However, for leadership to be effective, it needs to be encouraged and supported by the members of the church.
