25 Years Ago, “Nine Marks” Was Born
By Mark Dever | 10.28.2016On October 30, 1991—25 years ago this Sunday—Mark Dever wrote a letter to a church in Massachusetts. They needed a new pastor and wanted to know what they should be looking for. Mark responded with a list of nine must-haves—a list that has since become known as “nine marks of a healthy church.”
Week #9—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Punish Crime, Tax, and Defend the Nation
By Jonathan Leeman | 10.26.2016What does the Bible say about punishment, taxes, and war?
4 Lessons We Should Learn from 19th-Century Missionaries
By Travis L. Myers | 10.25.2016In contrast to current faddish pragmatic strategies devoid of ecclesiology, these 19th-century missionaries articulated a biblical and holistic understanding of the missionary life and ministry.
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?
