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Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus (9Marks, Building Healthy Churches)

Jonathan Leeman
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Listen to a sermon by Jonathan Leeman on Church Membership from the 9Marks Conference entitled Church Membership. Source: Sermon Audio
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Publisher's Description

Why should you join a church?
Becoming a member of a church is an important, and often neglected, part of the Christian life. Yet the trend these days is one of shunning the practice of organized religion and showing a distaste or fear of commitment, especially of institutions.

Jonathan Leeman addresses these issues with a straightforward explanation of what church membership is and why it’s important. Giving the local church its proper due, Leeman has built a compelling case for committing to the local body.

Includes a Foreword by Michael Horton

Specifications
  • Cover Type
    Hardcover
  • ISBN
    9781433532375
  • Page Count
    142
  • Weight
    0.42 lb
  • Publisher
    Crossway/Good News Publishers
  • Publication Date
    April 2012

Endorsements (4)

We live in an age where people relate to and make decisions about church much like they do with a restaurant. We desperately need to be awakened from our consumeristic slumber. This book is the wake-up call that is needed to turn church consumers into gospel participants.

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Darrin Patrick

Lead Pastor, The Journey, St. Louis, MO; author, For the City and Church Planter

Practical. Convicting. Biblically faithful. Leeman reminds us that church membership is not a choice but a demand. The book is punchy and provocative, but at the same time it is permeated with the gospel of grace.

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Thomas R. Schreiner

James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Brief, fresh, entertaining, and, above all, biblical. This is the explanation and defense of church membership you’ve been looking for.

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Mark Dever

Senior Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington DC; President, 9Marks

Church leaders across many denominations will find this little book filled with practical ideas and good arguments that will help us cure Christians in our culture today of their allergy to church membership, pastoral authority, life accountability, and any limits to their personal freedom.

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Timothy Keller

Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City

About the Author

Jonathan Leeman (MDiv, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is an elder at Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington, DC. He serves as director of communications for 9Marks and is the editor of its eJournal. Leeman is the author of The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love and has been published in several major newspapers and Christian periodicals. He is currently a PhD candidate in theology at the University of Wales.

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