Polity
Nine Reasons I Don’t Like Multi-site Churches
By Thomas White | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010My fears of the multi-site church movement are not technological; they are principled.
Historical Critique of Multi-Site: Not Over My Dead Body
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010What could centuries-old arguments have to do with cutting-edge conversations like the one we’re trying to have about multi-site churches?
Have We Ever Seen This Before? Multi-Site Precedents
By John Hammett | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010Much in the multi-site movement assumes and depends upon modern communication, ease of travel, and technology.
Exegetical Critique of Multi-Site: Disassembling the Church?
By Grant Gaines | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.26.2010Church structure may be secondary, but it remains important and a matter addressed in the Scriptures, which therefore requires Christian obedience.
Clouds on the Horizon
By Matt Chandler | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.25.2010When we researched multi-site churches we had a hard time pinpointing concerns with it because in all the reading we did we rarely came across two churches that do it the same way.
Polity on Church Discipline: A User’s Guide
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 02.25.2010If you’re a pastor trying to obey Jesus by implementing church discipline, there are few books that will aid you the way Polity will.
The Preemptive Resignation—A Get Out of Jail Free Card?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 02.25.2010Ending one’s membership in a church requires the consent of both parties. We join a church by the consent of the church, and we leave a church by the consent of the church.
A Pastor Defends His Multi-Site Church
By J. D. Greear | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 02.25.2010Here is why we enthusiastically embrace the multi-site strategy as biblically sound, practically wise, and pastorally helpful.
Book Review: Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, by Jim Belcher
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2003The reunion Belcher is hoping for here is just not going to happen.
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.
Polity with Mark Dever
By M. Dever, M. Schmucker | 10.31.2001With the variety of churches today, it would seem anything goes when it comes to the functioning of the church. But, is there actually a Biblical blueprint for church life? 9Marks discusses the book, Church Polity with the leaders of Capitol Hill Baptist Church.
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.