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Church Discipline

Church Discipline
Author: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433532360

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More and more church leaders, pastors, and members are looking for guidance on how to practice church discipline in a biblical way. Here is a contemporary and concise how-to guide that provides a theological framework for understanding and implementing disciplinary measures in the local church, along with several examples of real-life situations. Drawing on both Matthew 18 and 1 Corinthians 5, this brief hardback helps leaders face the endless variety of circumstances and sins for which no exact scriptural case study exists, sins which don't show up on any list and need a healthy framework to be corrected appropriately in love. This volume is part of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series. Look for upcoming, quick-read formats of the following marks of a healthy church: expositional preaching, biblical theology, the gospel, conversion, evangelism, church membership, discipleship and growth, and church leadership.


Handbook of Church Discipline

Handbook of Church Discipline
Author: Jay E. Adams
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310535476

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This is a handbook for pastors, elders, and all Christians who want to see how Scripture presents the process of discipline that should operate in the Christian community. It was written in response to the various concerns that threaten to tear apart marriages, families, friendships, and congregations--concerns that call for a biblical approach to discipline that can heal fractures, restore right relationship, and ensure the health of the church. Developed around the five corrective steps found especially in Matthew 18:15-17, this book helps church leaders deal with the sorts of problems that require the church’s disciplinary response. Charting a course that combines discernment with appropriate action, this simple, readable handbook can have a profound effect on the community of believers.


Biblical Church Discipline

Biblical Church Discipline
Author: Daniel E. Wray
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780851512693

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What is church discipline and how can it be put into practice?


Understanding Church Discipline

Understanding Church Discipline
Author: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433689049

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Should we actually practice church discipline today? Is it unloving? Once an ordinary part of church life, churches gradually stopped practicing church discipline in the 20th century. But Jesus commands it. Paul practiced it. And churches benefit from it. Why practice church discipline? It shows love for the individual caught in sin, love for the whole church, love for non-Christian neighbors, and love for the glory of Christ.


What Is a Healthy Church?

What Is a Healthy Church?
Author: Mark Dever
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1581349378

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Guides both pastors and members to recognize key characteristics of a healthy church and then challenge each person to do his or her part in developing those characteristics in the local church body.


Baptist Church Discipline. Revised Edition

Baptist Church Discipline. Revised Edition
Author: James Leo Garrett
Publisher: The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc.
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781579783525

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Don't Fire Your Church Members

Don't Fire Your Church Members
Author: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433686228

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Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work. In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission.


Democratic Religion

Democratic Religion
Author: Gregory A. Wills
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195160991

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No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.


Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (3rd Edition)

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (3rd Edition)
Author: Mark Dever
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433540010

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Now in its third edition and featuring a new foreword by New York Times best-selling author David Platt, pastor Mark Dever’s classic book is not an instruction manual for church growth. Rather, it is a wise pastor’s recommendation for how to assess the health of a church using nine crucial qualities often neglected by many of today’s congregations. Church leaders and church members alike will resonate with the principles outlined here, breathing new life and health into the church at large. In this newly revised edition, fresh arguments have been added (for example on expositional preaching, about the nature of the gospel, on complementarianism), illustrations have been updated, appendices have been changed, and cover has been improved.


Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline?

Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline?
Author: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433570289

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Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions about church life. Each booklet offers biblical answers and practical applications with the goal of nurturing healthy church practice and commitment. In this concise booklet, Jonathan Leeman presents succinct biblical answers to various questions posited about the nature and application of church discipline, conveying that Scripture presents church discipline as both loving and necessary for yielding life, health, holiness, and growth in the local church body.