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Church health is measured by more than just numbers, but declining membership is often a key symptom of a church in crisis. The pastor of a dying church doesn't need to be told it is dying; he needs to find the way forward--and he needs hope.Author and pastor Andrew Davis offers readers the lessons he's learned in his own journey of leading church transformation, including- keeping Christ's ownership of the church central- being humble- choosing your battles wisely- empowering godly men to join in leadership- making prayer a priority- focusing on the Word- and moreChurch decline is not inevitable. Revitalize gives pastors the spiritual support they long for and the practical advice they need to turn their churches around and position them for greater health in the future.

An important anthology that reaffirms the classic doctrine of substitutionary atonement and counters the ongoing attacks against it.If ever there was a time and a need for an enthusiastic reaffirmation of the biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement, it is now. With this foundational tenet under widespread attack, J. I. Packer and Mark Dever's anthology plays an important role, issuing a clarion call to readers to stand firm in the truth.In My Place Condemned He Stood combines three classic articles by Packer-"The Heart of the Gospel"; his Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture, "What Did the Cross Achieve"; and his introductory essay to John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of Christ-with Dever's recent article, "Nothing but the Blood." It also features a foreword by the four principals of Together for the Gospel: Dever, Ligon Duncan, C. J. Mahaney, and Al Mohler. Thoughtful readers looking for a compact classic on this increasingly controversial doctrine need look no farther than this penetrating volume.

What does a community that testifies to God's power look like?God’s people are called to a togetherness and commitment that transcends all natural boundaries—whether ethnic, generational, or economic. But such a community can be enjoyed only when it relies on the power of God in the gospel.In The Compelling Community, pastors Mark Dever and Jamie Dunlop cast a captivating vision for authentic fellowship in the local church that goes beyond small groups. Full of biblical principles and practical advice, this book will help pastors lead their congregations toward the kind of community that glorifies God, edifies his people, and attracts the lost.

What does it look like to help others become more like Christ?In this concise guide, pastor Mark Dever outlines the who, what, where, when, why, and how of discipling—helping others follow Jesus.Following the pattern found in Scripture, this book explains how disciple-making relationships should function in the context of the local church, teaching us how to cultivate a culture of discipling as a normal part of our everyday lives.Part of the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series.   Equips Christians to follow Jesus’s command to make disciplesPart of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series, which expands on Mark Dever’s best-selling book Nine Marks of a Healthy Church Useful for small groups or individual studyWritten by a well-known pastor and the president of 9Marks

Evangelism is not only largely misunderstood, it is often all but neglected among Christians today. Many want to share the gospel with others, but feel intimidated and incapable of doing so. Yet God has given us answers in the Bible that instruct and equip us to share the good news with others. In The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Mark Dever seeks to answer the pressing questions that many Christians ask about evangelism: What is evangelism? Why should we evangelize? Why don't we evangelize? Who should we evangelize? How should we evangelize? This book draws from New Testament truths and Dever's personal experience in sharing the gospel in order to help believers apply those truths in practical ways. As readers understand the biblical foundations of evangelism, they will begin to develop a habit of evangelism in their lives and local churches. Answers pressing questions many Christians have about evangelism: What is evangelism? Why should we evangelize? Why don't we evangelize? Who should we evangelize? How should we evangelize?Stems from the author's personal experience in sharing the gospelWritten by popular author, pastor, and speaker Mark Dever, president of 9Marks (9Marks.org)Updated with a new cover

“I eagerly commend this series.”—R. Albert Mohler Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryDiscover the importance of local church membership.Many of us have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church. You may even catch yourself asking, If I believe in Jesus, why do I need to join a church? To put it simply, when you are saved from your sin, you are saved into a community characterized by fellowship and accountability. Best-selling author Mark Dever presents 7 biblical reasons why church membership is essential for displaying the gospel in your life. Part of a series that helps Christians understand the centrality of the local church in Christian discipleshipOffers 7 reasons why you should join a local churchPoints to where the Bible teaches about church membershipIncludes application questions, suggestions for further reading, and charts and graphs to communicate information clearly

“I eagerly commend this series.”—R. Albert Mohler Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryThe gift of a godly pastor cannot be overemphasized, but the task of finding a faithful pastor is daunting. In this booklet, seasoned pastor Mark Dever offers clear, biblical insight to churches in search of new leadership by providing six characteristics to look for in a new pastor, along with eleven strategies to implement during the search process. Part of a series that helps Christians understand the centrality of the local church in Christian discipleshipSix biblical insights into the attributes of a faithful pastorEncourages Christians with the power of the warm, nurturing grace of their local church gatheringsEleven best practice suggestions for search committeesPart of the 9Marks Church Questions seriesFormatted as a small booklet ideal for sharing

A Newly Updated and Rebranded Edition of The Deliberate ChurchIf 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 evangelismForeword by D. A. CarsonIncludes “think tank” questions on key topics for personal or group reflection

What Makes for a Healthy Church?You may have read books on this topic before but not like this one. Instead of an instruction manual for church growth, this classic text points to basic biblical principles for assessing and strengthening the health of your church. Whether you’re a pastor, a leader, or an involved member of your congregation, studying the nine marks of a healthy church will help you cultivate new life and well-being within your own church for God’s glory.This revised edition includes two new chapters; updated material on prayer, missions, evangelism, and the gospel; and a foreword by H. B. Charles Jr. Features a new preface by Mark Dever and added content on prayer and missions130,000+ volumes soldOffers time-tested guidance for developing healthy, biblical churchesServes as a foundational resource for other 9Marks titles, including the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series

Classic 9Marks Texts for Every Pastor, Now Available in a SetMark Dever’s best-selling book Nine Marks of a Healthy Church has impacted thousands of pastors worldwide. This classic text offers tried-and-true biblical principles for leading a church toward health by expanding on each of the 9 marks—expositional preaching, gospel doctrine, concern for discipleship, and more.Nine Marks of a Healthy Church is now available in a set with How to Build a Healthy Church by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander, the companion handbook for pastors and church leaders on how to build a healthy church grounded in the gospel. This practical resource offers readers a helpful framework for building this type of ministry, addressing a multitude of topics such as the role of the pastor, congregational singing, the importance of elders, new members’ classes, and adult education.Paired together, these two helpful books create a timeless set that is essential for every pastor’s library. How to Build a Healthy Church is the revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church (978-1-58134-738-8) featuring a redesigned cover and an added chapter on the role of exposition in evangelismNine Marks of a Healthy Church has sold over 130,000 unitsBoth books are published in partnership with 9Marks

A Companion Study Guide to The Compelling Community, Great for Individuals, Small Groups, and MoreIn The Compelling Community, pastors Mark Dever and Jamie Dunlop cast a captivating vision for authentic fellowship in the local church that goes beyond small groups, arguing that true fellowship is made up of two crucial ingredients: commitment (depth) and diversity (breadth). Theologically rooted yet extremely practical, The Compelling Community sets forth basic principles that will help churches become the compelling community that we all long for.This companion study guide covers all 12 chapters of The Compelling Community, featuring the main idea of each chapter, a Bible passage to study, prayer prompts, and suggestions for further reading. With questions for reflection and discussion, The Compelling Community Study Guide will help spark conversation and encourage readers to reflect on biblical truth about authentic fellowship within the local church.  Interactive: Includes questions and Bible verses for guided study and discussionAccessible Resource for Churches: Helps pastors and congregations think deeply about community within the churchFor Individuals and Groups Alike: Perfect for small groups, Bible studies, or individuals looking to learn more about what the Bible has to say about communityCompanion Study Guide: Designed to be used alongside The Compelling Community by Mark Dever and Jamie Dunlop

Key Traits of a Healthy Church to Develop within the Local BodyWhat is an ideal church, and how can you tell? How does it look different from other churches? More importantly, how does it act differently, especially in society? Many of us aren’t sure how to answer those questions, even though we probably have some preconceived ideas. This book answers those questions and many more.Author Mark Dever seeks to help believers recognize the key characteristics of a healthy church: expositional preaching, biblical theology, and a right understanding of the gospel. Dever then calls us to develop those characteristics in our own churches. By following the example of New Testament authors and addressing all members of the church, pastors and laity alike, Dever challenges all believers to do their part in maintaining the local church. Part of the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series, What Is a Healthy Church? offers timeless truths and practical principles to help each of us fulfill our God-given roles in the body of Christ. Offers an Ideal Church Model: Encourages pastors and members to implement healthy church qualities within their local bodyWritten by Mark Dever: Pastor, bestselling author, and president of 9MarksFrom 9Marks: Other titles in the Building Healthy Churches series include Church Discipline; Deacons; and Church Membership Replaces ISBN 978-1-58134-937-5

A Big Picture Overview of Each Old Testament Book The Old Testament is the story of God’s promises to his people. Below its somewhat obscure surface is hidden magnificent truth about the love and power of God. Throughout its pages the reader can find promise after promise from God, all of which are fulfilled in the New Testament—in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.Based on sermons in the early years of Mark Dever’s ministry at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, The Message of the Old Testament explores the Old Testament as a glorious whole so that readers are able to see the big picture of the majesty of God and the wonder of his promises. Big-Picture Analysis: Covers each book of the Old Testament concisely and accurately Appeals to Pastors and Laypeople Alike: A helpful resource for gaining a deeper understanding of the Bible or preaching an overview sermon to a congregation Written by Mark Dever: Based on 28 sermons taught at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DCReplaces ISBN 978-1-58134-717-3

A Biblical Overview of Each New Testament Book in Light of the Old The New Testament is the story of how all the promises made by God in the Old Testament were kept—and what that means for us today. The nation of Israel had many hopes: hope for a deliverer, hope for restored fellowship with God, and hope for the world to be put right. The New Testament explains how those promises were kept and how, if we are Christians, they are kept in us as well.Based on 28 sermons in the early years of Mark Dever’s ministry at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, The Message of the New Testament surveys the historical context, organization, and theology of each New Testament book in light of God’s Old Testament promises. Dever’s message echoes that of the New Testament—one of fulfilled hope. Big-Picture Analysis: Covers each book of the New Testament concisely and accurately Appeals to Pastors and Laypeople Alike: A helpful resource for gaining a deeper understanding of the Bible or preaching an overview sermon to a congregation Written by Mark Dever: Based on 28 sermons taught at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DCReplaces ISBN 978-1-58134-716-6

Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and president of 9Marks, is widely respected for his efforts to build biblically faithful churches in America that will impact the nations. In this book about one of the practical distinctives of that work, Dever and his former student Greg Gilbert offer a theological and practical guide emphasizing the centrality of expositional preaching -- sermons intentionally rooted in a specific Bible text.Dever and Gilbert clearly explain how God exercises His divine power through the Word, making it the basis of any relationship we have with Him. Thus, preaching directly from Scripture should be at the center of church life. Toward that goal, the authors give practical advice on how pastors can decide what texts to preach on, how to prepare and outline their sermons, and how to deliver and review those presentations.Pastors will especially appreciate the book’s final section: transcripts of past sermons from Dever and Gilbert augmented by insightful conversations between them about how each sermon was planned and whether or not is was effectively implemented.

Christians face lots of practical questions when it comes to life in the local church: How is the gospel displayed in our lives together? What are we supposed to do and believe? Different followers answer differently—even as they preach the same gospel! What should we think about such differences?A church’s life, doctrine, worship, and even polity are important issues. Yet they are so rarely addressed. The Church is Mark Dever’s primer on the doctrine of the church for all who see Scripture alone as a sufficient authority for the doctrine and life of the local church. He explains to the reader what the Bible says about the nature and purpose of the church— what it is, what it’s for, what it does.Indeed, Scripture teaches us about all of life and doctrine, including how we should assemble for corporate worship and how we’re to organize our corporate life together. God has revealed himself by his Word. He is speak- ing to us, preparing us to represent him today, and to see him tomorrow! A congregation of regenerate members, fulfilling the responsibilities given to us by Christ himself in his Word, regularly meeting together, led by a body of godly elders, is the picture God has given us in his Word of his church.

Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.   What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church membership, church discipline, and a Baptist approach to the ordinances.   Each section explores the pastoral applications of these arguments. How do congregationalism and elder leadership work together? When should a church practice church discipline? How can one church work with another in matters of membership and discipline?     To be read sequentially or used as a reference guide, Baptist Foundations provides a contemporary treatment of Baptist church government and structures, the first of its kind in decades.

God means to fulfill the Great Commission through local churches.  How did the apostles and the churches of the New Testament obey the Great Commission? By gathering Christians together in churches. The church is God’s plan for evangelism, discipleship, and the Great Commission. This connection between the Great Commission and the church dramatically impacts how both leaders and members should think about their work of making disciples. We do it together.

Who leads a church? Why is this important to God? God cares about his glory, and he means to display his glory through the church. For this very end, God has established elders and deacons, members, and congregational authority. This primer on church structure connects the different offices of the church to one another and to the glory of God.

El evangelismo no sólo es incomprendido, es a menudo inpracticado. Muchos cristianos quieren compartir el Evangelio con otros, pero debido a que esos cristianos no entienden los fundamentos de testificar, se sienten intimidados e incapaces de compartir la verdad del Evangelio. A medida que los lectores entienden los fundamentos de la evangelización, comenzarán a desarrollar una cultura de evangelismo en sus vidas y en sus iglesias locales."Mark Dever ha hecho un gran favor a cada creyente y pastor. Con gran humildad, nos ayuda a relacionar nuestro anhelo por las almas con la verdad del evangelio y la evangelización misma. Este libro sencillo nos escudriña los corazones, nos corrige las mentes, nos llama a la fidelidad, y nos anima con los ejemplos prácticos y las exhortaciones." Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Dever y Alexander proponen un modelo de total dependencia y sumisión al evangelio al construir una iglesia sana. Gran recurso para pastores, ancianos y otros interesados en la vitalidad de su iglesia.Mark Dever está profundamente preocupado acerca de la salud de la iglesia. Su vida y ministerio ha sido dedicado a la tarea de dirigir una congregación saludable para la gloria de Dios. En La Iglesia Deliberante, el Dr. Dever y Paul Alexander nos guían a la aplicación práctica de los principios bíblicos que Mark Dever ha defendido por años. Lea este libro para descubrir la base bíblica de y el enfoque clave para dirigir su congregación para ser la iglesia que Dios quiere que sea. –Thom S. Rainer Decano, Escuela de Misiones, Evangelismo e Iglecrecimiento de Billy Graham, Seminario Teológico Bautista del Sur.

Una iglesia saludable" no es un manual instructivo para hacer crecer iglesias. Son las recomendaciones de un pastor sobre cómo evaluar la salud de su iglesia por medio de nueve cualidades cruciales que pueden traer nueva vida y vitalidad espiritual para la gloria de Dios. Es posible que usted haya leído obras semejantes, pero no igual a esta. Juntamente con una importancia renovada dada a la autoridad de las Escrituras entre muchos Cristianos evangélicos, se ha notado un aumento del secularismo y una disminución en las lealtades denominacionales, por lo que las tradiciones están siendo ampliamente cuestionadas hoy en día. Hoy es el momento y la oportunidad de redefinir la iglesia en una manera más sana y bíblica. El Ministerio de las Nueve Marcas (MNM) busca cambiar la manera en que los pastores y líderes entienden a la iglesia local. Desean reenfocar la atención en el valor de una congregación sana. Esperan reconectar una cuidadosa teología bíblica con las prácticas de la iglesia.

¿Cuales son los indicios de una iglesia saludable? ¿Una congregación grande? ¿Instalaciones amplias? ¿Música viva?Es posible que usted ha leído obras como esta – pero no igual a esta. Esta nueva edición de Una Iglesia Saludable no es un manual instructivo para crecer iglesias. Son las recomendaciones de un pastor sobre cómo evaluar la salud de su iglesia por medio de nueve cualidades cruciales que pueden traer nueva vida y vitalidad espiritualidad para la gloria de Dios."Quiero escuchar a Dios en cuanto a Su iglesia. Vuelvo con esperanza y confianza a Mark Dever y su compromiso radical a la Biblia. Pocos autores hoy día han contemplado más frecuente o profundamente sobre el tema de una iglesia bíblica y sana." John Piper, Bethlehem Baptist Church"Este libro es el mejor que he leído sobre este tema de importancia tan crucial." C.J. Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Ministries"Una Iglesia Saludable: Nueve Características es un instructivo bíblico para la fidelidad." J. Ligon Duncan III, Pastor principal, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS

"Este libro en particular ha impactado e influenciado mi compresión de la iglesia más que cualquier otro". DAVID PLATT¿CÓMO ES UNA IGLESIA SALUDABLE?Puede que hayas leído libros sobre este tema antes — pero no como este. En vez de un manual de instrucciones para el crecimiento de la iglesia, este texto clásico ofrece principios verdaderos y comprobados para evaluar la salud de tu iglesia desde una perspectiva bíblica. Sin importar si eres pastor, líder o un miembro comprometido de tu congregación, estudiar Las nueve marcas de la iglesia sana te ayudará a cultivar la vida nueva y el bienestar en tu congregación local para la gloria de Dios y el beneficio de Su pueblo.Esta guía clásica ahora incluye un nuevo prólogo, además de contenidos, ilustraciones y apéndices actualizados."Ten cuidado con la obra que estás sosteniendo en tus manos: puede cambiar tu vida y ministerio". D. A. CARSON"Uno de los mejores libros, más amenos y útiles, para aprender cómo dirigir una iglesia al cambio espiritual". PHILIP GRAHAM RYKEN"Pocas personas en la actualidad han pensado más o mejor sobre lo que hace a una iglesia bíblica y saludable". JOHN PIPER"Una receta bíblica para la fidelidad". J. LIGON DUNCAN"Esta es una obra fundamental y altamente recomendada". JOHN MACARTHUR"Un llamado poderoso y apasionado a las congregaciones a que tomen en serio sus responsabilidades". TIMOTHY GEORGE"Es el mejor libro que he leído sobre este tema de vital importancia". C. J. MAHANEY"Debe estar en las manos de todo pastor fiel y de todos aquellos que oran por una reforma en esta época". R. ALBERT MOHLER