Mark Dever

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  What Is A Healthy Church

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  Key Traits of a Healthy Church to Develop within the Local Body

  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 ideas. This book answers those questions and many 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 all members of the church, pastors and laity alike, Dever challenges all believers to do their part in maintaining the local church. Part of the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series, 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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  1 Corinthians 1-9 Challenging Church (Student/Study Guide)

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  Introduction
  Why Study 1 Corinthians?
  Timeline
  1. Count Your Blessings – 1 Corinthians 1 V 1-9
  2. Unite In “foolishness” – 1 Corinthians 1 V 10 – 2 V 16
  3. Unite As God’s Community – 1 Corinthians 3
  4. Recognise Real Ministers – 1 Corinthians 4
  5. Don’t Go Soft On Sin – 1 Corinthians 5 – 6
  6. Let Your Calling Count – 1 Corinthians 7
  7. Use Your Rights – 1 Corinthians 8 – 9
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  Even today, Jesus is still a figure of intense interest and admiration for millions. But then there’s His church. Church is a boring topic for most, and a reluctantly fulfilled duty for many.

  And we can understand why. Churches say they have the best news in the world, that they have the answer to our problems, that they are God’s embassies on earth; and yet churches are made up of people like you and me, who are grumpy, irritable, unfaithful, selfish, and worse.

  And as that is sadly true of churches today, so it was of the church in Corinth. It was young, it was full of life, and it was just as full of problems. What would God say to such a challenging church? What did they need to be excited by, to listen to, to learn?

  Use this seven-study guide to open up the first nine chapters of the letter of 1 Corinthians, to hear what God said to His church in Corinth, and what God still says to His church today.

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  1 Corinthians 10-16 (Student/Study Guide)

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  Introduction
  Why Study 1 Corinthians 10-16?
  Timeline
  1. Keep On Running – 1 Cor 9 V 24 – 10 V 13
  2. Love, Liberty And Legalism – 1 Cor 10 V 14 – 11 V 1
  3. Loving Authority – 1 Cor 11 V 2-16
  4. Thoughtful Unity – 1 Cor 11 V 17-34
  5. Your Gifts, Their Good – 1 Cor 12 V 1-31a
  6. The Most Excellent Way – 1 Cor 12 V 31b – 14 V 40
  7. Resurrection: Hold On – 1 Cor 15
  8. Good Examples – 1 Cor 16
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  What can turn a struggling church around? What can help a church which has sold out to the culture; which is riven by division; which is dominated by me-first materialism; and which is uncertain about the gospel itself?

  “Be on your guard”, wrote one church planter to just such a church. “Stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
  “Do everything in love.”

  So wrote the apostle Paul to the Corinthian church (1 Corinthians 16
  v 13-14). This was a congregation which seemed to have lost its way. But Paul did not give up on them. He encouraged them to love their church.

  And, in the second half of his first letter to them, he showed them how to do this-how to love each other as Christ had loved them.

  This was the love that could turn the Corinthian church around. And this is the love that all our local churches need. These eight studies in 1 Corinthians 10 – 16 will enable, motivate and challenge you to “do everything in love”, individually and collectively.

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