Book Review--What is a Healthy Church?

Reviewed by Doug Smith.

Mark Dever. What Is a Healthy Church? Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2007. Hardcover, 126pp. $10.99.

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ISBNs: 9781581349375

Contents

Excerpt

DCN: 250

LCCN: BV601.D49

Subject: Christian Church

Mark Dever (Ph.D., Cambridge University; Master of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Master of Divinity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and founder of 9Marks Ministries. He is the author of Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Crossway, 2004), The Deliberate Church (Crossway 2005), The Gospel and Personal Evangelism (Crossway, 2007), and the soon-to-be-released 12 Challenges Churches Face (Crossway, 2008).

This book is new, but the content isn’t really new. What Is a Healthy Church? first appeared in public as a series of articles in a church newsletter. It then became a booklet (”9 Marks of a Healthy Church”) and then a full-size book (Nine Marks of a Healthy Church). Now it is a small book, and it seems to get better each time. So what is a healthy church? (Read the full review here.)

Book Review--What is a Healthy Church?