"For several years now, erstwhile 9Marks editor and now full-time pastor Sam Emadi, with a wink, has summarized our ministry, "Yeah, I just tell people, 9Marks exists to tell pastors not to do weird stuff."
"Church mergers and church plants represent good news and bad news. The bad news is that it seems more and more churches are declining and in need of a restart. Church plants represent the good news: we have a bourgeoning supply of young pastors who desire to give themselves to the raising up and shepherding of God’s flock. And because we have more prospective pastors than open pulpits, we plant churches. Praise God for this “problem”! ..."
"This issue of the 9Marks Journal and the next are devoted to these men: lay elders, or the pastors that a church doesn’t pay, because they do all their work in the evenings and weekends. In this issue, Jeramie Rinne and Sebastian Traeger lay out the basic expectations for the job. Garrett Kell and Michael McKinley offer counsel on raising up such men within the flock. And Garrett, Steve Boyer, and I offer a few thoughts on equipping the ..."
"What good is a church if it loses its distinctness? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. The growing opposition to the Christian faith in Western culture is heart breaking and worth challenging. That said, God has good purposes for letting the nations—even a so-called Christian nation—oppose his people. And one of them is to sharpen the church’s distinctness. He is seeking a bride ..."
"Are the church and para-church friends or foes? The short answer is, they can be either. Healthy and accountable parachurch minis-tries strengthen local churches. Undiscerning and unaccountable parachurch ministries undermine them. The question we’d like to pose to you, if you’re a leader in a church or a parachurch, is whether you know what makes the difference."
The Goodfellow A Comedy-Drama in Three Acts (Classic Reprint) by Harry L. Newton (Trade Paper) by Harry L. Newton Paperback, Published 2016 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-333-65166-4, ISBN: 1-333-65166-X