Jonathan Leeman takes church discipline on the road with these two messages on the what, why, and how.

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Jonathan Leeman takes church discipline on the road with these two messages on the what, why, and how.

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How do you decide what to preach next? How do you put together a service in which each element is meaningful and contributing to a distinctively Christian theme? Mark invites you into his study as he shares his method and philosophy on planning Sunday services.

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At the 2017 SBC, Jonathan Leeman interviewed Russell Moore, Mark Dever, and Philip Bethancourt on building healthy churches in a confusing culture.

Perhaps one of Satan’s greatest exploits in American church history is to keep the church divided along racial lines. These days the racial lines divide fairly consistently along partisan lines, with white evangelicals often moving rightward and minority Christians often moving leftward. At worst, this divide compounds fear and mistrust, and exacerbates our disunity. Is this an accurate assessment? If so, what can be done? Can unity in the gospel be achieved only by overcoming partisan differences?

At TGC's 2017 national conference, we hosted a workshop to answer these questions.

Participants: Jonathan Leeman, Isaac Adams, Curtis Woods, Russell Moore, Kevin DeYoung

 

Would you believe it if someone told you church structure actually plays a crucial role in your individual discipleship?

In this 9Marks interview, missions pastor Andy Johnson sits down with two international Christians—"Arnold" and "Vincent"—to discuss the role the Western church plays in the growth of Christianity abroad, particularly in the Muslim world and China.

"If you say you're a Christian, but you're not helping other Christians follow Jesus, I'm simply not sure what you mean."

Prayerlessness is a problem in so many churches. What can we do about it?

Mark Dever gives a topical sermon on a biblical view of membership and congregationalism in the local church.

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Practicing church discipline is difficult. Perhaps this is why many churches seem to have neglected it.

Christians should be persuasive, and with his new book Fool's Talk, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative and distinctly Christian persuasion.

How should this desire to be persuasive affect our evangelism? Does God expect us to know the answers to every question? And how can we do this while remaining humble, recognizing that salvation is all of grace?

For our most recent 9Marks interview, Mark Dever sits down with Guinness to talk with him about these questions and more. We hope you'll find it useful.

What is baptism? What does baptism mean? Is it simply an individual's declaration that they now belong to Jesus? Is it a sign and seal of the new covenant, just as God intended circumcision to be a sign and seal of the old? And what does all of this have to do with church membership? Is church membership for everyone? Only baptized believers? Baptized believers and their children?

How do we apply the gospel to same-sex attraction? Why does a teenager struggling with self-cutting need to hear about justification by faith alone? How in the world can a biblical doctrine of God help a husband prone to anger?

If God the Holy Spirit left your church this weekend, what would happen next?

Where do elders come from? Is there a way to raise them up without trying to "reverse engineer" a man-made process? And once a church has elders, how can they stay unified? What does "unity" among elders even look like? Must they agree on every single thing?

Mark 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.

Mark Dever interviews Tim Keller about his conversion, what led him to New York City, why the cultural gap between generations has exponentially grown in recent decades, and much more.

Should the everyday Christian care about something as old-fashioned and outmoded as church membership? Does its practice make sense in contexts without church discipline? Isn't it just a "Baptist thing"? Mark Dever interviews Ligon Duncan about all this and more in the latest 9Marks Leadership interview: "Church Membership in Theory and Practice."

Is expositional preaching the only kind of faithful preaching? Are personal illustrations useful or unacceptable? How can preachers encourage obedience without veering toward moralism? In this wide-ranging interview, Garrett Kell talks with Mark Dever on the art and practice of preaching.

What distinguishes a local church from a club or company? Here’s your chance to be a fly on the wall as Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, shares his heart and mind on the contemporary state of the church and a biblical trajectory for reform.

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Mark Dever interviews CBMW President Owen Strachan on Chuck Colson, Carl F. H. Henry, and the state of the complementarian debate.

Anthony Moore, a pastor at the Village Church in Texas, answers Mark Dever's questions about a discipler's personality, practical ways to build meaningful friendships, and the Puritan Richard Sibbes.

Each nation and age has a unique way to express its depravity, to attack God. But none will succeed any more than the crucifixion succeeded in defeating Jesus.

A Kenyan pastor reflects on the prosperity gospel, urbanization, biblical literacy, Islamic influence, meaningful membership, and more.

How do we help church members who prefer anonymity to love and open up to each other?

What does it take to plant churches among the urban poor? What role do women’s ministry and mercy ministry play?

David Helm talks about training preachers, what makes good preaching, and what his new book adds to the mix.

What are good and bad ways to think about religion and politics? How should Christians work for the common good in a secularizing age?

How should a church’s elders address divorce, illegal immigration, substance abuse, in vitro fertilization, and more?

Why should Christians work? How can you trust God in the workplace? How can you avoid making an idol of work and being idle in work?

In this episode, D.A. Carson expounds on 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 and explains what the role of the elder is in a local church. 

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Prosperity gospel, persecution, changing cultural tides, a rising generation of convictional pastors, and more in this roundtable discussion on the church in America and abroad.

A roundtable discussion on the Great Commission, sending, calling, prayer, patience, and more with the leaders of the Cross Conference.

Mark Dever and Russell Moore discuss Moore’s new role, rap, relevance, and why “it’s even worse than it appears, but it’s alright.”

A roundtable discussion of the past, present, and future of the SBC.

Zane Pratt discusses the strange dynamics of cross-cultural missions in a Facebook world.

Mark Dever asks Carl Trueman about holocaust denial, secularization, “no creed but the Bible,” and everything else under the sun in this far-ranging conversation.

How does church polity connect to our discipleship as Christians? Why is sound church government critical to evangelism and missions? Jonathan Leeman asks Mark Dever, Chad Van Dixhoorn, and Hunter Powell.

How pushy should we be in our evangelism? Do we have to earn the right to share the gospel? Mack Stiles and a few friends share their wisdom.

What was Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ day-to-day ministry like? Find out in this interview with Iain Murray.

John Piper addresses racism, the gospel, obstacles to reconciliation, and white guilt in this discussion of his recent book Bloodlines.

The church is intended to be a display of God’s glory to the spiritual powers and to our unconverted neighbors. So how are we doing? Listen as four church-watchers bat around questions that deal with both the theological and practical aspects of local church life.

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Jonathan Leeman asks Hunter Powell and Mark Dever about authority in the church. What authority does the congregation have? What about the elders? And what did the congregationalists at the Westminster Assembly have to say about it?

Andy Davis, a pastor in North Carolina, recounts the stirring story of his church's revitalization.

Greg Beale gives a crash course on the discipline of biblical theology, assesses recent works on it, and explains what he’s written and why.