Sam Emadi
What “Able to Teach” Means and Doesn’t Mean
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Shepherding: The Work & Character of a Pastor | 06.30.2020God requires clarity, not cleverness; doctrinal fidelity, not rhetorical flourish.
How Can We Celebrate Communion When Our Churches Start Gathering Again?
By Sam Emadi | 05.01.20209Marks surveyed several pastors to see how they intended on serving communion once their church starts gathering again.
Episode 125: On “What Should I Do Now That I’m a Christian?” (with Sam Emadi)
By J. Leeman, M. Dever, S. Emadi | 04.28.2020You’re a new Christian. What’s the first thing you should do? Join a church!
Why We Produced the Church Questions Series
By Sam Emadi | 04.09.2020The church isn’t just one aspect of the Christian life, it’s the context of our Christian life—it shapes all the other aspects of our Christian obedience.
How (Not) to Preach Historical Narrative
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: What's Wrong With Gospel-Centered Preaching Today? | 03.31.2020I’ll discuss ways you shouldn’t preach historical narrative, illustrating each point by primarily looking at 1 Samuel 4–7: the battle of Aphek, the conflict between Dagon and Yahweh, and the battle of Ebenezer. If you haven’t read those chapters in a while, I’d encourage you to give them a look.
An Open Letter to a New Christian
By Sam Emadi | 03.26.2020Obedience is costly and the road of perseverance is long. But God, in his kindness, does not want you to walk this road alone.
Building a Culture of Evangelism Takes Time, So Be Patient and Get to Work
By C. Greggsen, S. Emadi | 02.24.2020It takes time to grow a culture of evangelism. Hopefully some of these practices will help.
The Conversation Behind the Conversation: How Ecclesiological Assumptions Shape Our Complementarianism
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning | 12.10.2019Behind many of our complementarian debates are significant differences about how we view the church.
You’re Not a Healthy Church Unless You Care About Titus 2
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning | 12.10.2019If your church doesn’t encourage women teaching women the Bible, then it’s not fulfilling Scripture’s vision of a healthy church.
3 Ways Baptism & the Lord’s Supper Ought to Shape our Monday through Saturday
By Sam Emadi | 08.12.2019For too many Christians, baptism and the Supper are exclusively about personal professions of faith, and personal expression of one’s obedience to Jesus.
7 Well-Meaning Objections to Church Discipline — And How Pastors Ought to Respond to Them
By C. Greggsen, S. Emadi | 07.05.2019Let’s briefly consider some of the “good-faith” objections to discipline we’ve encountered and how we try to help church members understand the theological principles undergirding discipline.
Mailbag #84: I Live too Far from A Healthy Church. What Should I Do? . . . Among Baptists, What’s the History of a Plurality of Elders?
By S. Emadi, S. DeMars | 05.31.2019— I live in an extremely rural area where we have many churches but none that are healthy. What should I do? — Many Baptist churches now have multiple elders. I understand the biblical case for this, but what’s the history of a plurality of elders among Baptists?
Metaphors and Membership: How Biblical Metaphors for the Church Require Church Membership
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Following the Lord Together | 05.07.2019If you’re looking for the words “thou shalt be a church member” in Scripture, you won’t find them. But if that troubles you, let me encourage you to think a little differently about how to arrive at biblical conclusions.
Two Prooftexts for Church Membership
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Following the Lord Together | 05.07.2019As a professor of mine used to say, “there’s nothing wrong with a prooftext… as long as the text proves what you say it does.”
Mailbag #78: Can a Church Require Too Many Meetings? . . . Should the Church be Involved in a Pastor’s Decision to Leave? . . . Reformed Theology in the Church’s Teaching Ministry
By C. Humfrey, M. Livingston, S. Emadi | 03.22.2019Can a church require too many services? How can pastors shepherd their flock while transitioning out? How should pastors teach about Reformed theology?
