Book Review: Stealing Sheep, by William Chadwick
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2010Chadwick’s book is a marvelous challenge to the widespread problem of Christian mobility.
Book Review: Franchising McChurch, by Thomas White and John Yeats
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010White and Yeats offer an alternative and excellent course for our generation. Yet I wonder if we still have the ability to recognize healthy food from junk food.
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.
Book Review: Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.02.2010Emergents, I plead with you, please read those aspects of the book carefully and with open hearts.
Book Review: The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church, by Tony Dale and George Barna
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: A New Evangelical Liberalism | 03.01.2010Though The Rabbit and the Elephant is about the church, there is little explanation of what the church is beyond a series of interconnected relationships.
Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum on Corporate Witness
By A. Mohler, J. D. Greear, J. Folmar, P. Newton, T. Anyabwile | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Mission | 03.01.2010Our churches can give the gospel a black eye, or they can be used by the Holy Spirit with magnetic effect to draw people to Jesus.
More Than Worth It: Costs and Benefits of Church Discipline
By Wyman Richardson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.01.2010It’s worth reminding ourselves as pastors what we stand to lose if we neglect biblical 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.
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.