Facing Up to Church Discipline
A Church Discipline Primer
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.01.2010A reluctance to practice church discipline may suggest that we believe ourselves to be wiser and more loving than God.
Church Discipline in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Informed Consent: Biblical and Legal Protection for Church Discipline
By Ken Sande | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 02.25.2010By updating your governing documents with these kinds of provisions, you can strengthen your ability to obey God’s command to restore straying sheep.
Church Discipline Resources
Book Review: The Transforming Community, by Mark Lauterbach
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010If you’re not careful, Lauterbach’s book just might cause a paradigm shift in how you think about grace and the gospel, as well as how you think about the church.
Book Review: Discipline with Care, by Steven McQuoid
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010Discipline with Care is a good book on church discipline that will strengthen churches by promoting their holy witness.
Miscellaneous Book Reviews
Book(s) Review: Who Runs the Church? and Perspectives on Church Government
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010Multiple-views books like this provide a perfect opportunity—an opportunity neither book fully makes good on—to set the record straight about positions that are not mutually exclusive.
Book Review: Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches, ed. by Thomas White, Jason G. Deusing, and Malcomb B. Yarnell, III
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 09.02.2002Allen’s chapter aside, this book is a generally well-articulated statement of some important Baptist distinctives.
Book Review: Organic Church, by Neil Cole
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010You may find this book helpful if you are a church planter, particularly in urban environment, but you’ll need to buttress it with books that have a more solid biblical ecclesiology.
Book Review: Crazy Love, by Francis Chan
Review by Patrick Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010This book is a useful prod for anyone who treats Christianity as if it only means intellectually assenting to a set of facts, but not something that changes your life.
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