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Book Review: The Gift of Church, by Jim Samra
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011Pastors, active church members, and church skeptics alike will be well served by this loving reminder of the centrality of the local church in the Christian life.
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Book Review: The Intentional Church, by Randy Pope
Review by Ben Wright | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011As you read this book you’ll see that Randy Pope has accomplished tremendous work for the sake of the gospel, and his approach to ministry planning has borne abundant fruit.
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Book Review: MissionShift, ed. by David Hesselgrave and Ed Stetzer
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011The great strength of this volume is that it serves as a fairly accessible introduction to a number of critical issues in contemporary evangelical missiology.
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Book Review: Missiological Models in Ministry to Muslims, by Sam Schlorff
Review by Doug Coleman | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011This book is a valuable resource for those engaged in reaching Muslims with the gospel.
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Book Review: The Pastor as Scholar and The Scholar as Pastor, by John Piper and D. A. Carson
Review by Fred Zaspel | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011Here Piper and Carson similarly remind us that learning (scholarship) and ministry are likewise complementary—the one is necessary to the other.
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Book Review: Loving the Church, by John Crotts
Review by Brian Croft | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011This book speaks a piercing word to pastors. It reminds us of the biblical standard to which God calls us.
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Book Review: 40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible, by Rob Plummer
Review by Jason Meyer | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011This book is a sterling example of how to answer specific questions clearly and succinctly, which is something all who teach the Bible must learn to do well.
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Book Review: Paul’s Understanding of the Church’s Mission, by Robert Plummer
Review by Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011I hope Dr. Plummer will consider publishing a popular level edition of the material which puts the cookies a few shelves lower and hires a graphic design team not so tied to the 1970s.
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Book Review: The Next Christians, by Gabe Lyons
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011As we’ll see, there is room for agreement and disagreement in the answers Lyons provides to these questions.
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Book Review: The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love, by Jonathan Leeman
Review by Tim Chester | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011I was asked to review this book as a “friendly dissenter,” but I have struggled to dissent. So now I am worried. What is it that I am supposed to have objected to?
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Book Review: The Gospel Commission, by Michael Horton
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.03.2011This book is theologically rich, carefully critical, and it throbs with a missionary heartbeat. Reading it will both instruct and inspire you to go and make disciples of all nations.
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Book Review: The God Who Is There, by D. A. Carson
Review by Nicholas G. Piotrowski | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011This is biblical theology that “understand[s] the life of the Church as well as the way life in the postmodern world works.” It joins only a few like it.
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Book Review: Following Jesus, the Servant King, by Jonathan Lunde
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.18.2011This book is an illuminating exposition of much crucial biblical material that bears on discipleship.
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Book Review: Almost Christian, by Kenda Dean
Review by Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.18.2011This book is worth your time as a penetrating indictment of quasi-Christianity and a source of some helpful advice about how to fight back.
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Book Review: The Tangible Kingdom, by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.02.2011I celebrate the willingness to throw anything overboard that gets in the way of reaching others with the gospel, but I fear some of what’s getting tossed is actually precious cargo.