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What Is a Healthy Church Member? (IX Marks) Hardcover – June 9, 2008

by Thabiti M. Anyabwile (Author)

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Biblically and practically instructs church members in ways they can labor for the health of their church.

What Is a Healthy Church Member? takes its cue from Mark Dever's book What Is a Healthy Church?, which offered one definition of what a healthy church looks like biblically and historically. In this new work, pastor Thabiti Anyabwile attempts to answer the natural next question: "What does a healthy church member look like in the light of Scripture?"

God intends for us to play an active and vital part in the body of Christ, the local church. He wants us to experience the local church as a home more profoundly wonderful and meaningful than any other place on earth. He intends for his churches to be healthy places and for the members of those churches to be healthy as well. This book explains how membership in the local church can produce spiritual growth in its members and how each member can contribute to the growth and health of the whole.

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"In an era when Christians seem confused about what kind of community the church ought to be, here's a helpful handbook outlining the church's true biblical priorities, especially as they apply to individual church members."
—John MacArthur, Pastor, Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, California; President, The Master's College and Seminary

"Given the state of so many of our churches today, this book arrives not a moment too soon."
—R. Albert Mohler Jr., President and Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

"This book provides an excellent and much-needed focus on the individual church member."
—R. C. Sproul, President, Ligonier Ministries; Senior Minister of Preaching, St. Andrew's Chapel, Sanford, Florida

About the Author

Thabiti M. Anyabwile (MS, North Carolina State University) serves as a pastor at Anacostia River Church in Washington, DC, and is the author of numerous books. He serves as a council member of the Gospel Coalition, is a lead writer for 9Marks Ministries, and regularly blogs at The Front Porch and Pure Church. He and his wife, Kristie, have three children.

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Crossway; First Edition edition (June 9, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781433502125
ISBN-13: 978-1433502125
ASIN: 1433502127
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
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However what I like about this book in contrast to Dever’s book is ...

BySLIMJIMon August 1, 2016

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Over the last few years I’ve read this book different times with others in different context ranging from our church’s small groups and also one on one. The last time I finished this book was a few months ago. I’m somewhat surprised that I have not written a review of this book until now.
The author Thabiti Anyabwile has written on what is a healthy church member. For those familiar with Mark Devers’ ministry and writing, readers will immediately notice that Thabiti’s first nine of ten points is borrowed from Dever’s book on the nine marks of the church. However what I like about this book in contrast to Dever’s book is that the emphasis is not so much on the church but now the individual readers (after all its about healthy church members). I like the focus on the readers as members of a church since too often today we have those in the church who can be hypocritical in focusing on what’s wrong with others in the church without seeing the need for themselves to be healthy and godly church members. It’s a great tool for discipleship to focus on members being healthy church members.
I appreciate the author’s tenth mark on a healthy church members. A healthy members as the author pointed out is one who is a “prayer warrior.” Church members and prayers should go together. Personally God has been teaching more the importance of prayer so this is great to see in the book. I’ve enjoyed this book that I bought it for myself and others as gifts. It should be no surprise then for me to say that I recommend this book.

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Good discussion starter

ByRyan Donovanon September 29, 2016

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I love short books with a lot of great content. The Leadership Team (pastors and elders) at our church are reading through this book and talking together about it, which has been helpful. It has sparked great discussion and helped us to think clearly about what we want our members to look like as a result of the ministry of our church.

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Great book providing depth of knowledge for self evaluation

Bymary reinemeron May 3, 2017

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Great book providing depth of knowledge for self evaluation.

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Helpful Concepts

ByBrandonon September 1, 2015

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Helpful concepts for how to grow individually as part of a local church, as well as some practical application. Not the most riveting of reads. I suspect I would have liked it a little more had I read Dever's "Nine Marks of A Healthy Church."

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A great "membership handbook"

ByM. Battenfieldon September 6, 2013

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This book is easy to read, and while it does not dive into the depths and full details of what it means to be a "Church Member", it does a very good job of outlining what a "healthy" (active, functioning, Great-Commission-fulfilling) Christian church member should be.

It is not some kind of divine "checklist" - it is simply a practical guide. It would make a good "text" for a "new members" class, or as a church-wide unifying and energizing study.

I hope to pick up several of these for "gifts"!

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Another good read.

ByBillon October 20, 2015

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If you have issues about church member foundations this is a good book to investigate & then assimilate new members into a steady walk & it will allow them to be actively engage. The author has done his homework & if by chance you get to read it make sure you take notes to go with you for memorization because you can & will grow from reading it.

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Needed in every church!

ByMarilyn J. Bilbyon July 26, 2014

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Every person joining a church fellowship should be required to read this book. Too often church membership is taken lightly as if it doesn't really matter what one does. But it does matter and needs to be taken seriously as any other joining. Membership rolls need to match the people in the pews as the books says. Definitely required reading.

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Christians need check-ups too...

ByDoniseon October 1, 2013

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Required reading for Church Ministry class was quite an eye-opener for me and others like me who can sometimes be a "Lone Ranger Christian" It's a gentle reminder that the 'church' is the whole of Christ's body and so requires the partnership, support, and love of other Christians. Easy and enjoyable read.

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