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What is Church Matters?
Church Matters is a quarterly journal for pastors. Each issue works to equip and encourage biblical thinking among pastors for the purpose of helping them build healthy churches.
Is Church Matters just another 9Marks book?
No. It may look and feel like a book, but Church Matters is a journal with 1000 to 2000 word articles. The unique benefits to the journal format are at least three-fold for pastors:
- Range and specificity. The journal format allows 9Marks to treat in briefer compass a wider range of subjects than would often be considered for books (i.e., Christian Nationalism, Catholicity, Seasons in a Pastor’s Life etc.). Each issue treats a topic from dozens of different angles ranging from theology to practice. In short, journals cover more topics closer up and from many different angles.
- Written by practitioners. Each issue of Church Matters depends on the hard-won insights of 25-plus practitioner-pastors. This many trusted authors naturally means a diversity of perspectives due to geography, demographic, church context, and so forth. In short, the Bible’s authority provides unity of thought, while the variety of experiences offer a diversity of application.
- Written for practitioners. 9Marks has always aimed to write for pastors. This is nowhere more clearly seen than in Church Matters. Whether covering foundational subjects like church membership or more time-sensitive topics like Christian Nationalism, each issue aims to equip, encourage, train, and support healthy pastoral ministry. In short, Church Matters is unique because it’s for pastors.
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Current Issue
Church Matters Volume X: The Pastor and Suffering
No pastor is immune from suffering. Whether it's cancer, depression, grief, or persecution, pastors face the same kinds of trials as their people. Not to mention the difficulties that arise from the ministry itself.
But how can pastors strengthen God's people amid their own suffering? We'll consider questions like this one in this issue of Church Matters as we address the difficult topic of pastoral suffering. Pastors who have walked through trials of various kinds offer practical counsel rooted in Scripture. Most importantly, they point us to the God whose power is perfected in weakness. For no pastor who puts his hope in the Lord will be put to shame (Psalm 25:3).
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