Membership
4 Reasons Churches Don’t Practice Church Discipline
By Jeremy Kimble | 11.02.2017Despite what some people think, church discipline isn’t an unloving, invasive act, perpetrated by wicked people.
4 Myths that Keep College Students from Joining a Church
By Jim Davis | 10.19.2017Do you want to faithfully follow Christ during your college years? Then join a church.
Mailbag #63: How to Love Wayward Children; Is Plural Eldership Required or Encouraged?
By Jonathan Leeman | 10.06.2017— How should we treat our 18-year-old daughter’s relationship with her girlfriend? How do we love them without condoning their sin? — Should all churches have a plurality of elders, or are there some churches that simply cannot have a plurality of elders?
Book Review: Uncomfortable, by Brett McCracken
Review by Shane Williamson | 10.05.2017This book’s ecclesial-shaped Christianity is utterly necessary for the church today.
Episode 20: On the Reformation
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Jonathan Leeman interviews Mark Dever on the Reformation and its usefulness for Christians today
Two Views on Church Discipline: Protestant vs. Roman Catholic
By Jeremy Kimble | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017How does a Protestant understanding of church discipline differ from Roman Catholicism’s?
Two Views on Church Authority: Protestant vs. Roman Catholic
By Gregg R. Allison | 9Marks Journal: The Reformation and Your Church | 09.26.2017Think of a three-legged stool. Now imaginatively label one of those legs “Scripture,” label the second leg “Tradition,” and label the third leg “Magisterium.”
What if We Applied “For Better or Worse” to Church Commitment?
By Brett McCracken | 09.22.2017What if we took seriously our “for better or worse, till death do us part” vows in marriage and then applied them to church?
Book Review: Church Order in the New Testament, by Eduard Schweizer
Review by Simeon Williams | 09.11.2017Schweizer’s arguments for a perpetually developing polity are unpersuasive because they depend on faulty arguments regarding differences among the apostles.
VIDEO: Should every Christian be a member of a local church?
By Aaron Menikoff | 07.20.2017Should every Christian be a member of a local church?
Church Planting in the Same Building
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017Our church was getting full, and we knew we needed to do something. So, we planted a church . . . in the same building.
Lessons Learned from Church Planting by Peaceable Division
By Colin Clark | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017Our three-year old church had 84 members. In order to plant a church, we split in half.
Church Mergers and Tolerable Irregularities
By Brad Wheeler | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017When should two churches merge despite the differences—and when should they stay separate precisely because of their differences?
What I Learned from Two Failed Church Mergers
By Matthew Cunningham | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.20.2017I’ve attempted to lead our church toward two church mergers, but neither have worked out. Here’s what I’ve learned.
You Can’t Plant a Church If You Don’t Know What a Church Is
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 06.19.2017Ecclesiology can’t be assumed nor should it be considered a distraction to the church planter’s “mission.”
