Leadership
Book Review: Celebrities for Jesus, by Katelyn Beaty
Review by Samuel D. James | 01.05.2023Books like ‘Celebrities for Jesus’ are needed wake-up calls to the deceitfulness of riches and the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus over any earthly gain.
Why an Elder Should Oversee the Bookstall
By Josh Manley | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Ministries | 12.15.2022When your church’s bookstall overseer isn’t feeding the sheep healthy food, they’re working against the digestion of the church’s entire teaching ministry.
5 Steps for Preventing Abuse in Children’s Ministry
By Chad Holmgren | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Ministries | 12.15.2022Given the prevalence of child abuse in our society, a church should never assume abuse could not happen in its children’s ministry.
Catering to Ministry Consumers
By Josh Hayward | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Ministries | 12.15.2022What you feed people with is what they’ll continue to hunger for.
Why Pastors Should Oversee Women’s Ministry
By Camryn Zamora | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Ministries | 12.15.2022When our pastors oversee women’s ministry, it doesn’t indicate distrust, but rather that when the wolves attack, the shepherds will bear the brunt, not the sheep.
Shepherding in the Age of Self
By Jonathan Dodson | 11.15.2022How should church leaders respond to those embroiled in the age of self?
Book Review: Fight for Your Pastor, by Peter Orr
Review by Walter Price | 11.14.2022Orr has written a short, easily readable, wonderfully biblical, and deeply challenging word for church members of all times in a humble and engaging way.
Why Missionaries Should Value Professionalism
By Matt Rhodes | 10.27.2022Many of us fondly remember John Piper’s “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals”. But there’s another type of professionalism that is manifestly not what Piper intended to criticize. It is the day-to-day pursuit of excellence in ministry.
How to Examine Qualifications in Elder Candidates
By Joel Kurz | 10.11.2022Find the men in your church who are already eldering. Get to know them and, as you do, keep 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 in mind. Once you’re reasonably confident this man ought to be an elder, I recommend a process of formal evaluation.
Pastors Govern Sober-Mindedly
By David Mathis | 10.07.2022Pastor-teachers do more than teach. They are called to lead—leadership that requires they be, both individually and collectively, sober-minded.
Assessment Questions for New Elder Candidates
By Jeramie Rinne | 10.04.2022What kinds of questions do you ask to assess the readiness of a prospective elder?
The New Testament’s First Administrators
By Brad Thayer | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Acts 6 offers a paradigm for the “how” and “why” of church administration.
Administrators: Playing with Calculators or Building Up the Body of Christ?
By Mike Carnicella | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Good administration and good administrators are a gift from God. Don’t neglect these gifts just because they seem boring or nerdy.
Pastors, Don’t Forget to Shepherd Your Deacons
By Gus Pritchard | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022Pastors’ delegation of work to deacons should not lead to abdication of their duty to oversee.
From the Archives: Why an Administrative Pastor
By Ryan Townsend | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Church Administration | 09.30.2022There are many reasons why a church may want to consider an administrative pastor as its second (or third or fourth) hire.
