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What Is a Healthy Church? by [Mark Dever]

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What 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 idea. But with this book, you don't have to wonder any 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 church members from pastors to pew sitters, Dever challenges all believers to do their part in maintaining the local church. 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.

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Mark Dever (PhD, Cambridge University) is the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and president of 9Marks (9Marks.org). Dever has authored over a dozen books and speaks at conferences nationwide.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crossway (June 19, 2007)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 19, 2007
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 130 pages

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Blaine Stephens

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2023

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This was a great book that helped me understand biblically the way a church was supposed to be run. It is helping my wife and I decide on a church to attend as well. The only thing I would have put more emphasis on was when he was talking about approaching people in the church about sin. I would have made a whole chapter about the right and wrong way to do it. I’ve seen women get divorced when it wasn’t their fault and divorce wasn’t their decision and the church kicked them out. I feel like there was a little too much room for interpretation regarding that section of the book.

Other than that. Thank you for a great, informative book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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=) Good except for the part about not accepting people with a different view of God’s sovereignty as members. =)

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An interesting read on becoming a healthy church.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2022

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It's not a sermon, not a book of philosophy, not an intense "checklist", and not something written based on an obscure Biblical quote.

What it is is a fairly common sense approach of scripurally based suggestions that any church could follow through on.

One person can't accomplish this, nor can the Deacons, nor a particular committee or two, nor even a majority of the congregation. This should be applied and practiced with the entire congregation for a truly healthy church.

If I have any reservations, it would be on the chapter on church disciplining wayward members, and tightening membership criteria to minimize, or eliminate, the need for such actions.

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Dr. David P. Craig

Good Primer on Church Health

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2011

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This book is essentially a condensed version of "Nine Marks of a Healthy Church" by Mark Dever - Pastor of a Large Conservative Baptist Church in Washington D.C. What makes this book valuable is the concise presentation of the nine practices that make for a healthy church. It is a good resource for a church staff, elder board, deacon board, or small group to go through. I used it to teach through the "nine marks" in an adult Sunday school class in the church where I am the senior pastor.

The Nine Marks of a Healthy Church are as Follows:

1) Expository Preaching
2) Biblical Theology
3) A Biblical Understanding of the Good News
4) A Biblical Understanding of Conversion
5) A Biblical Understanding of Evangelism
6) A Biblical Understanding Membership
7) Biblical Church Discipline
8) Biblical Discipleship and Growth
9) Biblical Church Leadership

I think that any church that focuses on these areas is going to be pretty solid. However, it doesn't guarantee health. I think character and emotional health come into play as well - e.g. - 1 Corinthians 13 talks about love being an essential quality of the church; also, many churches have good doctrine, infrastructure, and do all the above, but live in a false peace (see Peter Scazzero's - The Emotionally Healthy Church).

Overall, I recommend this little book as an introductory primer as a good evaluation tool, containing specific areas for local churches to have a good "check list" of ideas and practices to shoot for as they seek to be more Biblical in what they do when they gather together as a local church body. For more detail then what Dever writes in this book - I would recommend the slightly larger book - Nine Marks of a Healthy Church.

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Sean Nolan

A much needed antidote to evangelicalism's eroding ecclesiology.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2018

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Sadly, many in the West who consider themselves Christians are only loosely affiliated with a local church. Calvin wrote in his Institutes that, "for those to whom [God] is Father the church may also be Mother." Yet, there has been an erosion of ecclesiology in evangelical circles. The folks at XI Marks are laboring to reverse that erosion and I cannot recommend this book enough to people who are committed to Christ. God does not saved us into individualism, but into the Church, and the local church is his means of expressing this truth. Read this book, but even better join a local church committed to the truths of Scripture and putting to death the deeds of the flesh, make yourself known to her membership and commit to following Christ in accountability.

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dankee

Different mindset of how I view church

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2020

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I grew up in an unhealthy church. This book helps you understand why he termed it unhealthy and pushes you to a different mindset of how you view being part of churches. Def encourage your congregation to read it, think it through and discuss it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2021

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I like to read different views

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2014

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In a day when the trend seems to be to lower the bar and orient the church for the unbeliever, Dever challenges the church to return to biblical priorities. Each of his principles is drawn from Scripture and Scriptures are emphasized throughout. My only concern was his characterization of God's sovereignty and salvation. He seemed to say that anyone who did not believe in unconditional election did not have a proper view of salvation and should be denied church membership. A little strong in my opinion.
However, this should not discourage someone from reading this book. It's too important to neglect.

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Aaron Shaw

well worth reading, although if you used the first ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2015

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well worth reading, although if you used the first few pages in sermon form you might get booed at least, but Honest and very informative.

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