9Marks Director of Communications Jonathan Leeman has a highly provocative article up on the 9Marks site that anyone interested in church life should read. It’s called “The Alternative: Why Don’t We Plant?” and it is chock-full of probing questions and nicely distilled thought. Leeman is a very gifted writer. His text is chunky, full of [...]
Saturday Devotions: Holy Spirit Comfort
November 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Acts 9:31 reads, “So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.” Following a section on the difficulties the newly converted Saul faced in joining the church, this verse [...]
Excerpt Provocateur: Will Mancini’s “Church Unique”
August 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
On this new blog, we’re going for bigger and better. I want to update this site more often than I did the old one and keep things really humming along. Here’s a new feature I hope to use often: “Excerpt Provocateur”, which will give an interesting quotation that you (and I) might agree or not [...]
Comments on God Delighting in Small (New England) Churches
June 23, 2008 By 3 Comments
From Paul Buckley in Methuen, MA (check out his excellent, Christ-exalting blog)– “I pastor a Sovereign Grace Ministries Church in New England, King of Grace Church. Thanks for your encouraging post! Pastoring in New England has been a wonderful adventure of learning to glory in Christ and the precious folks he does give us and [...]
Does God, Perhaps, Delight in the Small?
June 18, 2008 By 3 Comments
Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. –Matthew 7:13-14I think that God delights in [...]
New 9Marks Conference on Church Growth
May 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
One of my least favorite ecclesiastical ideas is that of church growth. I personally see the very idea of church growth as a pragmatic invention of the twentieth century by which pastors and church leaders focus more on numbers and programs than on individuals and piety. There is very little of the church growth movement [...]
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