Book Review: Reviewing Leadership, by Robert Banks and Bernice M. Ledbetter
Review by Jeremy Yong | 03.05.2010Christians wanting a true evaluation of current approaches to leadership will unfortunately have to wait. This book isn’t it.
Book Review: Elders in Congregational Life, by Phil Newton
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 03.05.2010This book is devoted to working out the nuances of the relationship between congregation and elders.
Book Review: Dangerous Intersections, by Jay Dennis and Jim Henry
Review by Ryan Townsend | 03.05.2010Pastors can pick up and read this book for encouragement and insight, staying mindful to hold everything up to the test of Scripture and the context of their local church.
Book Review: Reforming Pastoral Ministry, ed. by John Armstrong
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010John Armstrong has compiled a book called Reforming Pastoral Ministry that is a well-placed and much-needed dart in the balloon of the church growth movement.
Book Review: 40 Questions About Elders and Deacons, by Ben Merkle
Review by Will Kynes | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.03.2010Merkle reminds us that the Bible has a great deal to say about how we do church.
Book Review: The Book on Leadership, by John MacArthur
Review by Owen Strachan | 03.03.2010This book is a very good resource for pastors seeking a spiritually-focused book on leadership.
Book Review: Advanced Strategic Planning, by Aubrey Malphurs
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.03.2010I’m not sure if Malphurs’s solution, his strategic planning program, is the cure-all for the church’s various maladies that he conceives it to be.
Book Review: Rethinking the Church, by James White
Review by Paul Alexander | 03.02.2010This kind of thinking thinking subtly leads us into the futility of dependence on synthetic technique and the idolatry of dependence on self, culture, and business theory.
Book Review: Natural Church Development, by Christian Shwarz
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.02.2010Schwarz’s low view of Scripture is also seen in his desire to place natural observations and research along side of or verifying Scripture.
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: The Living Church: Convictions of a Life Long Pastor, by John Stott
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010I found myself deeply encouraged by the reflections of this life-long pastor, who has been such a clear gift to Christ’s church.
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: Multicultural Ministry, by David A. Anderson
Review by Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.02.2010As a result of reading Multicultural Ministry, I will pray more, read more Scripture, and consider ways in which I can be a more deliberate reconciler.
