Evangelism
Book Review: Helping without Hurting in Church Benevolence, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Review by Nathan Carter | 01.11.2017If your church is seeking to build a benevolence ministry that’s biblical and informed by best practices, then this little book will be an indispensable resource.
Western Missions and the Global Church: An Interview with Two International Christians
With Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.22.2016In this 9Marks interview, missions pastor Andy Johnson sits down with two international Christians—”Arnold” and “Vincent”—to discuss the role the Western church plays in the growth of Christianity abroad, particularly in the Muslim world and China.
Churches in Cameroon: Battling to Rejoice in the Riches of Christ
By Dieudonné Tamfu | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Despite the proliferation of the prosperity gospel, churches in Cameroon are blessed with an evangelistic fervor and missionary zeal.
Churches in India: A People “Formed for God”
By Aubrey Sequeira | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016As a result of a low view of preaching for many years, the health of churches in India has suffered. Yet through a growing number of faithful shepherds, faithful preaching, and your prayers, the Lord may bring to India the reformation its churches need.
Churches in Israel: Proclaiming the True Messiah
By David Zadok | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Churches in Israel are growing in evangelistic confidence and doctrinal care, even as they wrestle with the cost of being identified with Gentile believers.
Churches in Northern Pakistan: The Crucial Need for Conversion
By Steve | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Before churches in northern Pakistan can thrive, they must have a clear understanding of conversion.
Churches in Myanmar: Fighting the Fear of Man and Glorying in God
By Justin Caudill | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016Though they may never receive the fame of an Adoniram Judson, faithful workers across Myanmar are quietly laboring to build up the church.
A Guide for Praying Nation by Nation
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Healthy Churches around the World | 12.12.2016One of our hopes for this Journal is that it will spur you on in prayer for our brothers and sisters around the globe. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of prayer requests from our contributors.
Week #11—What Christians Should Ask of Government: To Tolerate True and False Religion
By Jonathan Leeman | 11.10.2016In a pagan culture, sexual freedom and abortive freedom is religious freedom.
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.”
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.
On the Authority of a Sending Church
By Ken Caruthers | 9Marks Journal: Authority: God's Good and Dangerous Gift | 09.30.2016Let’s ensure that missionaries who leave quickly fall under the authority of a Christ-governed healthy church wherever they are.
Divide and Prosper: A Historical Account of Church-Planting by “Peaceable Division”
By Simeon Williams | 08.25.2016For too long, the narrative of American churches has been divide-or-die. So perhaps it’s worth asking the question: have we given proper consideration to divide-and-prosper?
Four Biblical Foundations for Contextualization
By Zane Pratt | 07.18.2016The goal of contextualization is not comfort, but clarity.
Praying as a Church for the World and Your City
By Phil Ryken | 9Marks Journal: The Church Praying | 06.21.2016If God rules over kingdoms, then kingdoms are our concern, and we should discipline ourselves to pray both for the world in general and our cities in particular.
