Mark Dever

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  9 Marks Of A Healthy Church Fourth Edition

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  Mark Dever’s Best-Selling Book, Newly Updated in Its Fourth Edition

  There is no such thing as a perfect church-but there is such a thing as a healthy church. So what distinguishes a healthy church from an unhealthy one?

  Now in its fourth edition, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church is designed to walk readers through this very question. Expanding on each of the 9 marks-expositional preaching, gospel doctrine, concern for discipleship, and more-this classic text offers tried-and-true biblical principles for leading a church toward health. A must-read for pastors, church leaders, and laypeople, this updated edition features a new preface and added content on prayer and missions.

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  How To Build A Healthy Church

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  A Newly Updated and Rebranded Edition of The Deliberate Church

  In the process of building a church, there are many things to consider-who will the elders be? How many seats should the sanctuary have? What type of music will the musicians play? Even more important-how do leaders ensure that the church is centered on the gospel?

  In this practical guide, pastors Mark Dever and Paul Alexander have compiled a handbook for pastors and church leaders on how to build a healthy church grounded in the gospel. The authors offer a helpful framework for building this type of ministry: laying the groundwork (evangelism, new membership, church discipline), structuring the gathering (preaching, worship, ordinances), designating the elders (their importance, requirements, and installation), and encouraging devotion to prayer and God’s word. A companion resource to Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, this practical guide presents new and seasoned pastors alike with a vision of the church deliberately structured to display God’s glory.

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  Discipling : How To Help Others Follow Jesus

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  Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to “make disciples of all nations.” But what does this command actually entail? What does it look like for Christians to care for one another’s spiritual well-being and growth? In this introduction to the basics of discipling, veteran pastor and author Mark Dever uses biblical definitions and practical examples to show how Christians can help one another become more like Christ every day. The eighth volume in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series, this short book explains how discipling should function in the context of the local church, teaching pastors and church leaders how to cultivate a culture of edification and growth in their congregations.

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  1 Corinthians 1-9 Challenging Church (Student/Study Guide)

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  Introduction
  Why Study 1 Corinthians?
  Timeline
  1. Count Your Blessings – 1 Corinthians 1 V 1-9
  2. Unite In “foolishness” – 1 Corinthians 1 V 10 – 2 V 16
  3. Unite As God’s Community – 1 Corinthians 3
  4. Recognise Real Ministers – 1 Corinthians 4
  5. Don’t Go Soft On Sin – 1 Corinthians 5 – 6
  6. Let Your Calling Count – 1 Corinthians 7
  7. Use Your Rights – 1 Corinthians 8 – 9
  Leader’s Guide

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  Even today, Jesus is still a figure of intense interest and admiration for millions. But then there’s His church. Church is a boring topic for most, and a reluctantly fulfilled duty for many.

  And we can understand why. Churches say they have the best news in the world, that they have the answer to our problems, that they are God’s embassies on earth; and yet churches are made up of people like you and me, who are grumpy, irritable, unfaithful, selfish, and worse.

  And as that is sadly true of churches today, so it was of the church in Corinth. It was young, it was full of life, and it was just as full of problems. What would God say to such a challenging church? What did they need to be excited by, to listen to, to learn?

  Use this seven-study guide to open up the first nine chapters of the letter of 1 Corinthians, to hear what God said to His church in Corinth, and what God still says to His church today.

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  1 Corinthians 10-16 (Student/Study Guide)

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  Introduction
  Why Study 1 Corinthians 10-16?
  Timeline
  1. Keep On Running – 1 Cor 9 V 24 – 10 V 13
  2. Love, Liberty And Legalism – 1 Cor 10 V 14 – 11 V 1
  3. Loving Authority – 1 Cor 11 V 2-16
  4. Thoughtful Unity – 1 Cor 11 V 17-34
  5. Your Gifts, Their Good – 1 Cor 12 V 1-31a
  6. The Most Excellent Way – 1 Cor 12 V 31b – 14 V 40
  7. Resurrection: Hold On – 1 Cor 15
  8. Good Examples – 1 Cor 16
  Leader’s Guide

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  What can turn a struggling church around? What can help a church which has sold out to the culture; which is riven by division; which is dominated by me-first materialism; and which is uncertain about the gospel itself?

  “Be on your guard”, wrote one church planter to just such a church. “Stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
  “Do everything in love.”

  So wrote the apostle Paul to the Corinthian church (1 Corinthians 16
  v 13-14). This was a congregation which seemed to have lost its way. But Paul did not give up on them. He encouraged them to love their church.

  And, in the second half of his first letter to them, he showed them how to do this-how to love each other as Christ had loved them.

  This was the love that could turn the Corinthian church around. And this is the love that all our local churches need. These eight studies in 1 Corinthians 10 – 16 will enable, motivate and challenge you to “do everything in love”, individually and collectively.

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