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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Book Review: The Christian’s Guide to Guidance, by Jay Adams
Review by Greg Gilbert | 06.05.2001Adams’s goal is to take the question of guidance, or of God’s will, and boil it down to a very simple proposition: God’s will is revealed to us solely through the Bible.
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Book Review: Experiencing God, by Henry Blackaby
Review by Greg Gilbert | 05.22.2001Much of Blackaby’s book, then, I think could be helpful to growing Christians.
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Book Review: Boiling Point, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 05.05.2001Barna’s book certainly has some interesting statistics, and he makes some fascinating predictions—but that’s about it.
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Review of Rob Bell’s NOOMA — Part 1
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 04.08.2001Here’s the scoop on the Rob Bell video series storming through youth rooms and sermon series across the country.
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Book Review: ChurchNEXT, by Eddie Gibbs
Review by Greg Gilbert | 04.05.2001Cultural studies cannot determine or shape the primary methods and structures of the church. Those are found in the pages of the Bible.
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Book Review: Churchquake, by C. Peter Wagner
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.30.2001All in all, I was disappointed with Wagner’s book. There are no ideas here that you cannot find in other, better books.
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Book(s) Review: T. D. Jakes: Various Works
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.22.2001On the whole, most of T.D. Jakes’s works belong on the psychology shelves at the bookstore.
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Book Review: Your Best Life Now, by Joel Osteen
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Mission | 03.08.2001If Joel Osteen wants to be the Norman Vincent Peale of the twenty-first century, he has every right to give it a shot. But he should stop marketing his message as Christianity, because it is not.
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Review of Rob Bell’s NOOMA — Part 2
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.08.2001Having watched so many of these videos, it strikes me just now how seldom Bell uses the traditional Christian language to name Jesus.