Was Dagg Right?
By Gregory A. Wills | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.01.2010There is no simple correlation between a church’s disobedience on the one hand and spiritual blight and abandonment by Christ on the other.
9Marks Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum
By Forum | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.01.2010What are some lessons on church discipline you’ve learned the hard way?
Church Membership and the N.C.L.H.G.A.
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Mission | 03.01.2010Was church membership practiced by churches in the New Testament? Scripture gives us indications that the answer to this question is “yes.”
How to Make Membership Matter
By Paul Alexander | 03.01.2010Feel free to reproduce it without our expressed permission. You don’t even need to acknowledge our authorship.
Class III: Preaching
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.01.2010We cannot claim that our church is founded on the Word of God unless our church is founded on the preaching of that Word.
Class II: Church Membership
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.01.2010I. INTRODUCTION Good morning and welcome! This is the second class in a thirteen-week course on living together as a church. This morning, we will consider the idea of church membership and how it facilitates unity within the church. Before we begin, let’s pray. Church Membership—Why Bother? I wonder if you’ve thought much about why […]
Class XIII: Corporate Evangelism
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.01.2010Throughout the Bible and the history of the church, God has used the witness of the church to draw people to himself.
Class XII: Worship
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.01.2010What is worship? What does it mean to worship God? And what does worship have to do with the unity that should exist in the body of Christ?
Class IX: Church Discipline
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.01.2010How should we react to unrepentant sin in the church?
Church Membership in a World Without NASCAR
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Hospitality & Friendship | 03.01.2010Even with the Christian church’s spotty record, we ignore the past at our own peril.
Wanted: Plotting and Provoking Church Members
By Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Hospitality & Friendship | 03.01.2010Because of everything Jesus has done, and because of everything that he is, Christians are to stir one another up to love and good works.
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.”
Class IV: Corporate Prayer
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.01.2010Given how central prayer is to our lives as Christians, it makes sense that prayer is a vital part of building unity in our church.
Why (and How) Your Church Should Hold the 1689 Confession
By Sam Waldron | 02.26.2010Should you use the 1689 London Confession in your church? Yes, and here’s why.
