Church Planting and Revitalization
One Example of Reaching Your Multi-Ethnic Neighbors
By Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Once one understands the place of the local church in God’s eternal plan, it’s worth re-thinking both ethnic-language church planting and ethnic-language ministry in general.
Book Review: Reviving the Black Church, by Thabiti Anyabwile
Review by Jemar Tisby | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.23.2015In this book, Thabiti Anyabwile diagnoses the state of the Black church and prescribes medicine from the Scriptures
A Conversation about Church Revitalization with Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman
By J. Leeman, M. Dever | 07.23.2015The more we reduce ministry to business, the more pastors are convinced to think like CEOs and less like shepherds.
Book Review: Can These Bones Live? by Bill Henard
Review by Casey Hough | 07.22.2015f you’re is looking for a book that deals with church revitalization primarily from the perspective of dependence upon God’s work according to God’s will, this book should not be your first choice.
Stop Launching Churches! Instead, Covenant Together
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Mergers and Plants | 07.17.2015I think we should stop talking about “launching” new church plants and instead refer to them “covenanting” for the first time.
Book Review: Contagious Disciple Making, by David and Paul Watson
Review by Ed Roberts | 07.16.2015This book is primarily a recommendation of their experience as the way to engage in evangelism and discipleship that leads to new churches. Perhaps the authors could have suggested their experiences as one way, rather than as the only truly effective way.
Book Review: Better Together, by Jim Tomberlin & Warren Bird
Review by Jamus Edwards | 07.06.2015If you’re considering a church merger, I commend this book to you. It stirs up the recognition for the desperate need of revitalization in countless churches across the nation.
Truly, Truly I Say to You: 8 “Truly’s” from Mike McKinley’s Church Planting Is for Wimps
By Dallas Goebel | 03.31.2015I am a new pastor of a church revitalization, and Mike McKinley’s book Church Planting Is For Wimps has been a deep encouragement to me.
Life, Ministry, and Books with Tim Keller—Part 2: Ministry
By M. Dever, T. Keller | 02.17.2015Mark Dever interviews Tim Keller about his pastoral legacy, what a typical Sunday morning looks like for him, his dichotomy-refuting “third way-ism,” and much more.
Book Review: The Church Planting Wife, by Christine Hoover
Review by Erin Wheeler | 9Marks Journal: Complementarianism & the Local Church | 02.02.2015Both practical and encouraging, The Churching Planting Wife is well worth the time of any wife married to a man pursuing or involved in ministry.
