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How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus
More and more church leaders, pastors, and members are looking for guidance on how to practice church discipline in a biblical way. Here is a contempo...
How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus
Jonathan Leeman addresses the commonly asked (and often unanswered) question of, "Why should I join a church?" in a time when many are shunning the pr...
How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing
Accessible Guide from 9Marks Equips Believers to Steward Their God-Given Authority In every position of power—from executives and world leaders to c...
How the Local Church Should Reflect God's Love and Authority
God Is Love vs. Love Is God Our culture's view of love—with no boundaries or judgments or conditions— justifies whatever our hearts want and whate...
The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ's Rule
What is the nature of the church as an institution? What are the limits of the church's political reach? Drawing on covenant theology and the "new ins...
Congregational authority is less about the meetings and more about the mission. Congregationalism has a bad rap for well-known reasons: inefficient me...
The Case for Congregationalism
Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they sho...
Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age
How can the church move forward in unity amid such political strife and cultural contention? As Christians, we’ve felt pushed to the outskirts of na...
Church discipline is painful, but often necessary, and should always be loving. In this addition to the 9Marks Church Questions series, Jonathan Leema...
How Scripture Brings Life and Growth to God's People
It’s a question hundreds of pastors ask every day:What is the best way to grow? A lot of books give a lot of answers, but the best one comes from Sc...
Church discipline is essential to building a healthy church. So how exactly do we practice church discipline? Jonathan Leeman helps us face the endles...
God means to fulfill the Great Commission through local churches. How did the apostles and the churches of the New Testament obey the Great Commission...
Rethinking the Multisite and Multiservice Church Models
This book considers a series of biblical and pastoral arguments against both the multisite and multiservice church model, making the claim that mainta...
Who leads a church? Why is this important to God? God cares about his glory, and he means to display his glory through the church. For this very end, ...
How Can We Know What the Church Is Supposed to Do? Jesus commissioned the local church to carry out a mission. Yet local churches often disagree over ...
Becoming a member of a church is an important, and often neglected, part of the Christian life. Giving the local church its proper due, Leeman has bui...
Should we actually practice church discipline today? Is it unloving? Once an ordinary part of church life, churches gradually stopped practicing churc...
What is the Church's mission? What does it mean to participate in God's mission personally? How do "mission" and culture interact and conflict? This b...
Here is a contemporary and concise how-to guide that provides a theological framework for understanding and implementing disciplinary measures in the ...
Why the Body of Christ Is Essential
Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman help readers rediscover why the church is essential....
Introducing the Church Questions Series from 9Marks How should Christians respond when they disagree on political issues? Many new believers have ques...
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Churches are currently facing a host of difficult issues―potential shut-downs and restrictions due to COVID-19, political dissension among members, ...
The Old Faith for a New Day
Recent cultural interest in evangelicalism has led to considerable confusion about what the term actually means. Many young Christians are tempted to ...
Why the Body of Christ is Essential
"This book is a timely reminder that the church is more than just a livestream--it is an essential fellowship of God's people furthering God's mission...
Over the course of 9 lessons featuring guided study, Bible passages, and discussion questions, this companion to the book Rediscover Church emphasizes...
Churches kick adult Sundayschool to the curb for ahost of reasons: they don'thave enough teachers; they don'twant to burden Sunday schedules;they beli...
The Foundation for Faithful Ministry
Once an ordinary part of church life, churches gradually stopped practicing church discipline in the 20th century. But Jesus commands it. Paul practic...
Guardian and Guide of the Church - Summer 2014
In The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates tells his own story of growing up as the son of a former Black Panther in West Baltimore in the 1980s and ...
How to Organize Your Church
"Scripture is the only document our church needs!" Have you ever thought that?Okay, fine. But I have a few questions for you. First, who exactly would...
Why We Must Reclaim Dying Churches and How
9Marks Journal: RevitalizeChurch planting is a great thing, and there's no need to take anything away from it. But there should also be a default sett...
Abraham prayed. Moses prayed. David prayed. The prophets prayed. The apostles prayed. Jesus himself prayed.But do our churches pray when they gather t...
Remembering the Awful Reality
Embracing the reality of hell means setting aside moderation. It means admitting that our sin is dark and heinous to the point of eternal damnation; t...
Discipling is not a program.It is not a podcastpreacher. It is not a one size-fits-all information transfer.It is life-on-life loving in wordand deed....