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Concern for Church Polity and Discipline

Author : Laura Schmidt Roberts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725261014
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Concern for Church Polity and Discipline written by Laura Schmidt Roberts and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONCERN: A Pamphlet Series for Questions of Christian Renewal was born in the 1950s of shared concerns over a gap between an Anabaptist vision and contemporary, North American Mennonite reality. The initial group views the increasingly hierarchical denominational structure, the emergence of centralized, professionalized, pastoral ministry, and the resultant changes in polity and practice as fundamentally incompatible with a Believers’ Church ecclesiology. Essays here present that critique and discussion of the reconfiguration of pastoral and communal authority, as well as the assertion that reclamation of a disciplined priesthood of all believers is the path of Christian renewal. Today the question of what institutional forms best structure the leadership, authority, and shared life of congregations persists, marked by particular concern to attend to the exercise of power within actual communities of faith.

Budgeting for a Healthy Church

Author : Jamie Dunlop
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310093872
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Budgeting for a Healthy Church written by Jamie Dunlop and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many pastors conceive of the church budget as primarily a financial tool, but in fact it is primarily a pastoral tool. A church's philosophy of ministry is locked into its budget, and so the budget will either stifle or accelerate any attempts to move a congregation toward a biblical model of church health. As such, the church budget is a far more potent pastoral tool than many church leaders realize. Budgeting for a Healthy Church examines each section of the budget in light of Biblical principles to show how a church budget can lock in healthy approaches to ministry. Whereas most books on church budgeting are "how" books, explaining how the budgeting process should work, this is a "what" book, helping church leaders determine the pastoral implications of what they choose to fund in their budgets.

Church Discipline

Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433532360
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Church Discipline written by Jonathan Leeman and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (3rd Edition)

Author : Mark Dever
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433540010
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (3rd Edition) written by Mark Dever and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Polity

Author : Mark Dever
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970125217
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Polity written by Mark Dever and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calvin's Company of Pastors

Author : Scott M. Manetsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190224479
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Calvin's Company of Pastors written by Scott M. Manetsch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Calvin's Company of Pastors, Scott Manetsch examines the pastoral theology and practical ministry activities of Geneva's reformed ministers from the time of Calvin's arrival in Geneva until the beginning of the seventeenth century. During these seven decades, more than 130 men were enrolled in Geneva's Venerable Company of Pastors (as it was called), including notable reformed leaders such as Pierre Viret, Theodore Beza, Simon Goulart, Lambert Daneau, and Jean Diodati. Aside from these better-known epigones, Geneva's pastors from this period remain hidden from view, cloaked in Calvin's long shadow, even though they played a strategic role in preserving and reshaping Calvin's pastoral legacy. Making extensive use of archival materials, published sermons, catechisms, prayer books, personal correspondence, and theological writings, Manetsch offers an engaging and vivid portrait of pastoral life in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Geneva, exploring the manner in which Geneva's ministers conceived of their pastoral office and performed their daily responsibilities of preaching, public worship, moral discipline, catechesis, administering the sacraments, and pastoral care. Manetsch demonstrates that Calvin and his colleagues were much more than ivory tower theologians or "quasi-agents of the state," concerned primarily with dispensing theological information to their congregations or enforcing magisterial authority. Rather, they saw themselves as spiritual shepherds of Christ's Church, and this self-understanding shaped to a significant degree their daily work as pastors and preachers.

The Book of Church Order

Author : Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804239042
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Church Order written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baptist Foundations

Author : Mark Dever
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433681048
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Baptist Foundations written by Mark Dever and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, representatives of several North American Baptist seminaries and a Baptist university make the 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.

A Guide to Church Discipline

Author : J. Carl Laney
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725227878
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Church Discipline written by J. Carl Laney and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fears of disunity, conflict and even legal problems have caused many church leaders to avoid confronting Christians who are living in sin. Challenging the church's reluctance, Dr. Laney provides a biblical, practical and loving handbook for pastors and lay leaders alike on church discipline.

The Master's Plan for the Church

Author : John MacArthur
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802480179
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Master's Plan for the Church written by John MacArthur and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is absolutely essential that a church perceive itself as an institution for the glory of God, and to do that, claims John MacArthur, the local church must adhere unfalteringly to biblical leadership principles. Christ never intended church leadership to be earned by seniority, purchased with money, or inherited through family ties. He never compared church leaders to governing monarchs, but rather to humble shepherds; not to slick celebrities, but to laboring servants. Drawing from some of the best-received material on church leadership, this updated edition guides the church with crucial, effective lessons in leadership. This book is valuable not only for pastors and elders, but for anyone else who wants the church to be what God intended it to be.

Polity, Practice, and the Mission of The United Methodist Church

Author : Thomas E. Frank
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426763573
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Polity, Practice, and the Mission of The United Methodist Church written by Thomas E. Frank and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses." This in-depth analysis of the connection between United Methodist polity and theology addresses ways in which historical developments have shaped--and continue to shape--the organization of the church.This revised edition incorporates the actions of The United Methodist General Conference, 2004. The book discusses continuing reforms of the church's plan for baptism and church membership, as well as the emergence of deacon's orders and other changes to ordained ministry procedures. The text is now cross-referenced to the Book of Discipline, 2004, including the revised order of disciplinary chapters and paragraph numbering. Denominational statistics are updated, along with references to recent works on The United Methodist Church and American religious life.

The Power of a Clear Conscience

Author : Erwin W. Lutzer
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736953078
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Power of a Clear Conscience written by Erwin W. Lutzer and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchange Your Guilt for True Freedom and Forgiveness Do you struggle with feelings of guilt about your past? Or are you bogged down by a conscience that haunts or imprisons you? This is not how God intends for you to live. Your conscience was not created to hold you prisoner, but to guide you and point you to freedom from guilt and bad habits. It's designed to tell you the truth so you are not held in bondage to lies or sin. A clear conscience enables you to live in the present without being distracted, both mentally and emotionally, by your past. Longtime pastor and bestselling author Erwin W. Lutzer shares what it means to live in the power of a clear conscience as you learn how to deal with guilt and replace it with joy discover how the truth that can hurt you can also heal you realize the incredible extent of God's forgiveness and love for you You'll find yourself encouraged by the truths that no failure is permanent and no life is beyond God's power to bring about change.

Protestant Church Polity in Changing Contexts I

Author : Allan J. Janssen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643903103
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Protestant Church Polity in Changing Contexts I written by Allan J. Janssen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church polity, as a theological discipline, has become increasingly aware of the challenge of contextuality, due to tendencies like secularization in the global North and a renewed awareness of inherited cultural and religious traditions in the global South. The ecumenical movement offers a particular framework for reflection on such developments. Contexts I and Contexts II of Protestant Church Polity in Changing Contexts contain proceedings from an international conference held in Utrecht in November 2011. Contexts I (ISBN 978 3 643 90310 5) includes essays in the fields of ecclesiology, church history, missiology, inter-cultural theology, and practical theology. The companion Contexts II (ISBN 978 3 643 90311 2) presents a number of case studies. (Series: Church Polity and Ecumenism. Global Perspectives - Vol. 2)

Church Membership

Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433532409
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Church Membership written by Jonathan Leeman and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Leeman addresses the commonly asked (and often unanswered) question of, "Why should I join a church?" in a time when many are shunning the practice of organized religion. By offering a brief, straightforward explanation of what church membership is and why it's important, Leeman gives the local church its proper due and builds a case for committing to the local body. Church Membership is a useful tool for churches to distribute en masse to new and potential members of their congregation. 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 discipline, discipleship and growth, and church leadership.

One Assembly

Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433559625
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book One Assembly written by Jonathan Leeman and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many churches are switching to the multisite or multiservice models to manage crowded sanctuaries due to growing attendance. This solution seems sensible in the short term, but too often churches adopt this model without taking into consideration what the Bible says about it. Illuminating the importance of physical togetherness as a way to protect the gospel, this book argues that maintaining a single assembly best embodies the unity the church possesses in Jesus Christ. Jonathan Leeman considers a series of biblical, theological, and pastoral arguments that ask us to stop and examine intuitions or assumptions about what a church is. He reorients our minds to a biblical definition of church, offering examples of churches that have thrived with a single service at a single site and compelling alternatives for those looking to solve the complications that come with a growing church.

Understanding the Congregation's Authority

Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433688905
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Congregation's Authority written by Jonathan Leeman and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congregational authority is less about the meetings and more about the mission. Congregationalism has a bad rap for well-known reasons: inefficient meetings, upstart members, browbeaten ministers. But biblical congregationalism isn’t so much about the meetings. It’s about empowering the whole church to promote and protect the gospel. Pastors lead and equip. Members get to work strengthening one another and pursuing Christ’s mission in the world.

Who Runs the Church?

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310543525
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Who Runs the Church? written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churches have split and denominations have formed over the issue of church government. While many Christians can explain their church's form of rule or defend it because of its "tried and true" traditions, few people understand their church's administrative customs from a biblical perspective. Who Runs the Church? explores questions such as: What model for governing the church does the Bible provide, and is such a model given for practical or spiritual reasons? Is there room for different methods within Christianity? Or is there a right way of "doing church"? And, finally, how (and by whom) should the church be governed? Four predominant approaches to church government are presented by respected proponents: Episcopalianism - represented by Peter Toon Presbyterianism - represented by L. Roy Taylor Single-Elder Congregationalism - represented by Paige Patterson Plural-Elder Congregationalism - represented by Samuel E. Waldron As in other Counterpoints books, each view is followed by critiques from the other contributors, and its advocate then responds.