Practicing Church Discipline
“Don’t Do It!!” Why You Shouldn’t Practice Church Discipline
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 02.25.2010When pastors first discover church discipline in the Bible, I often tell them: “Don’t do it . . . at least not yet.”
Before You Discipline, Teach This First
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 02.25.2010What might not be so obvious is that a pastor needs to teach the church about more than just church discipline before they’re ready for discipline.
The Preemptive Resignation—A Get Out of Jail Free Card?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 02.25.2010Ending one’s membership in a church requires the consent of both parties. We join a church by the consent of the church, and we leave a church by the consent of the church.
Book Review: Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline, by Wyman Richardson
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.01.2010Can a pastor use this book for training his fellow church leaders, assuming that not all church leaders are not pastorally and theologically sensible? It gets an easy “yes.”
Miscellaneous Book Reviews
Book Review: Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, by Jim Belcher
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2003The reunion Belcher is hoping for here is just not going to happen.
Book Review: Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them, by Ed Stetzer
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010I think that a less-than-biblical philosophy of ministry shines through at certain points, so read with discernment.
Book Review: Perspectives on Christian Worship: Five Views, ed. by Matthew Pinson
Review by Bob Kauflin | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010How do we remain biblically rooted in our corporate worship of God without becoming culturally irrelevant?
Book Review: The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today, by Josh Moody
Review by Andy Davis | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010This book is a cogent and succinct summary of the central themes of the life of Jonathan Edwards, and Moody does his best work applying those themes to our present context.
Book Review: The Great Exchange, by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
Review by Shane Walker | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington have invited the church to the lifelong effort of bringing our beliefs in line with the Bible’s teaching on the atonement in all its eternal glory.
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