Discipleship
Whatever the Model, Don’t Be Afraid to Teach
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Both Sunday school as an event or Sunday school as a group can work. But recognize the shortcomings of either approach and work to supplement them.
How to Reform a Sunday School Program
By Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011For many Christians, Sunday school is a staple of church life. But what do you do when that staple isn’t as healthy as it should be?
Not Your Grandma’s Sunday School
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Who wants to sit and listen to a lecture about theology? Who wants to hear one person yack for an hour in the place of the community contributing? You’d be surprised.
Sunday School and Its Rivals
By Trevin Wax | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011It’s true that the elements of fellowship, accountability, and missional living all contribute to the shaping of a disciple. But what gives these their power is the Word of God.
How Sunday School Can Help Your Preaching
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Sunday School makes you a better systematic theologian, which in turn makes you a better applier of God’s Word.
How Sunday School Can Change Your Church’s Culture
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Over the last decade our church has discovered an unexpected tool for changing a culture: adult Sunday School.
Why Sunday School Lost its Edge
By Ed Stetzer | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011Has our current culture so changed that Sunday school will not be able to avoid extinction?
Why You Want Sunday School
By B. Jamieson, J. Pennington | 9Marks Journal: Don't Be Too Cool for Sunday School | 12.19.2011The bottom line here is, if not Sunday School, then where? If you don’t have Sunday school, where are you going to teach people how to study the Bible?
Cross-Cultural Ministry
By J. Mack Stiles, M. Dever | 12.19.2011Five Christian workers from three continents discuss the power, challenges, and joys of cross-cultural ministry.
Book Review: Renovation of the Church, by Kent Carlson and Mike Luken
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Revitalize: Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches—and How | 10.28.2011This book tells the story of how and why the authors turned a seemingly thriving seeker church into a church in which forming mature disciples of Jesus is the central concern.
Book Review: Radical Together, by David Platt
Review by J. D. Greear | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 2 | 08.29.2011All in all, this book represents what I believe to be God’s gracious work of calling his church back to the simple and revolutionary power of the gospel.
Do You Disciple Your Staff?
By M. Mullery, V. Hinders | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011Pastors are sheep, too. . . . They must not only be the source of Christ-centered ministry, but also the objects of it.
Book Review: The Gospel Commission, by Michael Horton
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.03.2011This book is theologically rich, carefully critical, and it throbs with a missionary heartbeat. Reading it will both instruct and inspire you to go and make disciples of all nations.
Book Review: Following Jesus, the Servant King, by Jonathan Lunde
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.18.2011This book is an illuminating exposition of much crucial biblical material that bears on discipleship.
Culture of Discipling
By M. Dever, P. Van Steenburgh | 02.18.2011Mark Dever explains why he prioritizes building relationships like he does—in the church, between Christians, and among pastors.