Book Review: Evangelism: Doing Justice and Preaching Grace, by Harvie Conn
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 09.02.2002For a mature Christian who is thinking through these issues, Conn’s discussion will spark thoughts and will at least begin to chart a course in the right direction.
Book Review: Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches, ed. by Thomas White, Jason G. Deusing, and Malcomb B. Yarnell, III
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 09.02.2002Allen’s chapter aside, this book is a generally well-articulated statement of some important Baptist distinctives.
Book Review: When People Are Big and God is Small, by Ed Welch
Review by Greg Gilbert | 08.02.2002This book would be useful to any pastor who is willing to have numerous and extended conversations with his people.
Book Review: Hearing God, by Dallas Willard
Review by Greg Gilbert | 07.02.2002I think there are probably better, more biblically careful books that hold at least some portion of what Willard is arguing.
Book Review: What’s So Amazing About Grace?, by Philip Yancey
Review by Greg Gilbert | 06.02.2002In the end, Yancey’s conception of grace is inadequate at best.
Book Review: Worship by the Book, by D. A. Carson
Review by Greg Gilbert | 04.02.2002Worship by the Book will be a dog-eared and threadbare favorite of any pastor serious about planning his church’s corporate gatherings with deep theological and biblical roots.
Book Review: Revolution, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2002If Barna had ever been a part of a healthy, vibrant local church, perhaps he wouldn’t find it so easy to declare the local church expendable.
Book Review: The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, ed. by James Beilby and Paul Eddy
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 03.05.2002This book discusses the question: “What image or understanding of the atonement does Scripture present as primary?”
Book Review: Guidance and the Voice of God, by Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne
Review by Greg Gilbert | 02.03.2002We know from the Bible what our destination is—union with Christ, and we know that God is working and moving to take us there.
Book Review: The Younger Evangelicals, by Robert Webber
Review by Greg Gilbert | 12.02.2001If younger evangelicals intend to build biblical—and not just postmodern—churches, they must center them on the Word of God.
Book Review: Rethinking the Successful Church, by Samuel Rima
Review by Greg Gilbert | 11.11.2001There are questions about the very methods of the church growth movement that Rima does not address.
Book Review: Doing Church as a Team, by Wayne Cordeiro
Review by Greg Gilbert | 10.05.2001Cordeiro’s emphasis on every-member ministry has led him to neglect and somewhat relegate the importance of the preaching of the Word.
Book Review: Led By the Spirit, by Jim Elliff
Review by Greg Gilbert | 10.05.2001Jim Elliff’s book is an extremely well-written and well-argued study of how the Holy Spirit guides the believer.
Book Review: Paul’s Idea of Community, by Robert Banks
Review by Greg Gilbert | 10.02.2001In the final analysis, Banks’s book is fatally flawed by its refusal to learn and teach from the entire Bible.
Book Review: The Connecting Church, by Randy Frazee
Review by Greg Gilbert | 08.05.2001I am happy to see that Frazee has identified a problem that exists in a large part of the Christian church today. My only contention is with the solution that Frazee proposes.
