
How to Build a Healthy Church
A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership (Second Edition)
Crossway Books (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 24. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-4335-7577-8 (ISBN)
Description
A Newly Updated and Rebranded Edition of The Deliberate Church
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.
Revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church (978-1-58134-738-8) featuring a new title, cover, and added chapter on the role of exposition in evangelism
Foreword by D. A. Carson
Includes "think tank" questions on key topics for personal or group reflection
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.
Revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church (978-1-58134-738-8) featuring a new title, cover, and added chapter on the role of exposition in evangelism
Foreword by D. A. Carson
Includes "think tank" questions on key topics for personal or group reflection
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Wheaton, IL
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4335-7577-8 (9781433575778)
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Mark Dever | Paul Alexander
How to Build a Healthy Church (Second Edition)
A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership
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08/2021
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1: Gathering the Church
Chapter 1: The Four Ps
Chapter 2: Beginning the Work
Chapter 3: Doing Responsible Evangelism
Chapter 4: Taking in New Members
Chapter 5: Doing Church Discipline
Section 2: When the Church Gathers
Chapter 6: Understanding the Regulative Principle
Chapter 7: Applying the Regulative Principle
Chapter 8: The Role of the Pastor
Chapter 9: Evangelistic Exposition
Chapter 10: The Roles of Different Gatherings
Chapter 11: The Role of the Ordinances
Chapter 12: Loving Each Other
Chapter 13: Music
Section 3: Gathering Elders
Chapter 14: The Importance of Elders
Chapter 15: Looking for a Few Good Men
Chapter 16: Assessment
Chapter 17: Why Character Is Crucial
Chapter 18: Getting Started
Chapter 19: Staffing
Section 4: When the Elders Gather
Chapter 20: The Word and Prayer
Chapter 21: The Agenda - What to Talk About
Chapter 22: Decision Making - How to Talk about It
Conclusion
Introduction
Section 1: Gathering the Church
Chapter 1: The Four Ps
Chapter 2: Beginning the Work
Chapter 3: Doing Responsible Evangelism
Chapter 4: Taking in New Members
Chapter 5: Doing Church Discipline
Section 2: When the Church Gathers
Chapter 6: Understanding the Regulative Principle
Chapter 7: Applying the Regulative Principle
Chapter 8: The Role of the Pastor
Chapter 9: Evangelistic Exposition
Chapter 10: The Roles of Different Gatherings
Chapter 11: The Role of the Ordinances
Chapter 12: Loving Each Other
Chapter 13: Music
Section 3: Gathering Elders
Chapter 14: The Importance of Elders
Chapter 15: Looking for a Few Good Men
Chapter 16: Assessment
Chapter 17: Why Character Is Crucial
Chapter 18: Getting Started
Chapter 19: Staffing
Section 4: When the Elders Gather
Chapter 20: The Word and Prayer
Chapter 21: The Agenda - What to Talk About
Chapter 22: Decision Making - How to Talk about It
Conclusion