Getting a Vision for the Parachurch
Nine Marks of a Healthy Parachurch Ministry
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011A healthy parachurch ministry knows that it exists primarily to protect the church.
How Parachurch Ministries Go Off the Rails
By Carl Trueman | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The parachurch is not the church. It does not do what the church does, and it should not supplant the church in the minds and lives of those involved in its work.
Are Parachurch Ministries Evil? Bad and Good Arguments for the Parachurch
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The failure of particular local churches may be the best, most enduring reason for the need for solid, gospel-centered, evangelistic parachurch ministries.
Helping Church and Parachurch Work Together
For the Church: Which Parachurch Ministries Should You Support?
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011Don’t support just any parachurch organization. Instead, use them to support efforts, individuals, or teams that you trust.
For the Church: How Can You Support Parachurch Ministries?
By Jeramie Rinne | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The most vital thing we can do to help the parachurch is to foster healthy, biblical churches.
Praying for Parachurch Ministries
By D. A. Carson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011Should there be any difference between the way we pray for a local church and the way we pray for a parachurch organization? No and yes.
How Church Discipline Will Save the Parachurch
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011Jesus authorized only one institution on earth to clean the kingdom gutters and unclog its pipes—the local church.
Miscellaneous Book Reviews
Book Review: Almost Christian, by Kenda Dean
Review by Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.18.2011This book is worth your time as a penetrating indictment of quasi-Christianity and a source of some helpful advice about how to fight back.
Book Review: The God Who Is There, by D. A. Carson
Review by Nicholas G. Piotrowski | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011This is biblical theology that “understand[s] the life of the Church as well as the way life in the postmodern world works.” It joins only a few like it.
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.
Book Review: The Tangible Kingdom, by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.02.2011I celebrate the willingness to throw anything overboard that gets in the way of reaching others with the gospel, but I fear some of what’s getting tossed is actually precious cargo.
Book Review: Christ-Centered Worship, by Bryan Chapell
Review by Josh Manley | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 01.31.2011If you are a pastor or church leader with responsibilities for worship or want to better understand this massive topic in Scripture, you should read this book.
Book Review: Wired for Intimacy, by William Struthers
Review by Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 01.31.2011Struthers’ research helps us to understand how pornography rewires the brain.
For the Parachurch: Know the Difference Between Families & Soccer Teams
By Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011The gospel helps us to see that belonging to a church is like belonging to a family, while working for a parachurch is more like playing for a soccer team.
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