More than just the senior pastor. Church Matters is also for the staff pastor in your church who focuses on missions, youth, adult education, etc. It’s for the lay elder who goes to work every day as a mechanic, lawyer, engineer, etc. It’s for missionaries and anyone who aspires to ministry.
Convenience. While any one of these folk could order a copy for themselves or go online to read the selected free articles, the likelihood is that they won’t—or at least not consistently. This is why 9Marks wants to automatically send your church as many printed copies of Church Matters as you have pastors and aspiring pastors and missionaries. Subscription makes Church Matters convenient.
A training tool. Printed copies make it easier for you to use Church Mattersas a training tool in your staff and elders meetings, while providing a better reading experience. And just like commentaries, the Church Matters journal can serve as an accessible, practical reference tool that sits in your pastoral library so you can refer to it as needed during studies, preparation, counseling, and pastoral meetings, etc.
