How to Build a Healthy Church: A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership, 2nd ed.
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Overview
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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- Provides a handbook for pastors and church leaders on how to build a healthy church
- Offers a helpful framework for building a ministry
- Presents new and seasoned pastors alike with a vision of the church deliberately structured to display God’s glory
- Section 1: Gathering the Church
- Section 2: When the Church Gathers
- Section 3: Gathering Elders
- Section 4: When the Elders Gather
Top Highlights
“God’s Word has always been his chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform his people.” (Page 41)
“Churches are most healthy when the gospel is most clear; and the gospel is most clear when our evangelistic methods are most plain.” (Page 68)
“four P’s—I would preach, pray, develop personal discipling relationships, and be patient.” (Page 41)
“What then should we pray for as we begin to work for the health and holiness of the church? (1) What more appropriate prayers could a pastor pray for the church he serves than the prayers of Paul for the churches he planted (Eph. 1:15–23; 3:16–21; Phil. 1:9–11; Col. 1:9–12; 2 Thess. 1:11–12)?” (Page 44)
“there’s only one thing that’s biblically necessary for building the church, and that’s the preached Word of God” (Page 41)