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How to Build a Healthy Church (Mark Dever)
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How to Build a Healthy Church, a revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church, challenges leaders to evaluate their motivations for ministry and provides practical examples of healthy, deliberate leadership.
Written as a companion handbook for Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, it covers important topics including membership, worship, responsible evangelism, and church roles. This is more than a step-by-step plan to mimic; it’s a biblical blueprint for pastors, elders, and anyone committed to the church’s vitality.
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How to Build a Healthy Church
A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership
If churches are the dwelling place of God’s Spirit, why are so many built around the strategies of man? Eager for church growth, leaders can be lured by entertaining new schemes, forgetting to keep doctrinal truth as their driving force. Churches must find a way out of the maze of programs and methods and humbly lean on the sufficiency of God’s Word.
How to Build a Healthy Church, a revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church, challenges leaders to evaluate their motivations for ministry and provides practical examples of healthy, deliberate leadership. Written as a companion handbook for Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, it covers important topics including membership, worship, responsible evangelism, and church roles. This is more than a step-by-step plan to mimic; it’s a biblical blueprint for pastors, elders, and anyone committed to the church’s vitality.
Contents
Section 1: Gathering the Church
1: The Four Ps
2: Beginning the Work
3: Doing Responsible Evangelism
4: Taking in New Members
5: Doing Church Discipline
Section 2: When the Church Gathers
6: Understanding the Regulative Principle
7: Applying the Regulative Principle
8: The Role of the Pastor
9: Evangelistic Exposition
10: The Roles of Different Gatherings
11: The Role of the Ordinances
12: Loving Each Other
13: Music
Section 3: Gathering Elders
14: The Importance of Elders
15: Looking for a Few Good Men
16: Assessment
17: Why Character Is Crucial
18: Getting Started
19: Staffing
Section 4: When the Elders Gather
20: The Word and Prayer
21: The Agenda – What to Talk About
22: Decision Making – How to Talk about It
Conclusion
About the Authors:
Mark Dever (PhD, Cambridge University) is the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and president of 9Marks (9Marks.org). Dever has authored over a dozen books and speaks at conferences nationwide. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Connie, and they have two adult children.
Paul Alexander (MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the pastor of Grace Covenant Baptist Church in Elgin, Illinois, where he lives with his wife, Laurie, and their six children.
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