New 9Marks Journal — April 2016

Posted on April 5, 2016 
Filed under Resources

9marks-journal-apr-2016“Church documents are a prosaic topic, to be sure. But they facilitate unity. They protect a church from being governed by the passions of the moment. And they force a congregation and its leaders to be careful, deliberate, reflective, and, hopefully, biblical. Not bad, for a boring old administrator’s job.

To put it another way, church documents are kind. It is kind to tell people what you think up front. It is kind [to] say what you will expect from them or how disagreements will be resolved…”

The latest issue of 9Marks Journal is out. The theme is “Confessions, Covenants, and Constitutions”.