9marks eJournal May/June 09

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PRESENTING AND ARGUING FOR THE MULTI-SITE CHURCH
Theological Defense of Multi-Site

A Pastor Defends His Multi-Site Church

IDENTIFYING AND LOCATING THE MULTI-SITE CHURCH
What Is this Thing, Anyway? A Multi-Site Taxonomy

Have We Ever Seen This Before? Multi-Site Precedents

Richard Baxter and the Multi-Site Movement

Clouds on the Horizon

ARGUING AGAINST THE MULTI-SITE CHURCH
Nine Reasons I Don't Like Multi-site

Churches, from a Guy Who Should

Exegetical Critique of Multi-Site: Disassembling the Church?

Theological Critique of Multi-Site: Leadership Is the Church

Historical Critique of Multi-Site: Not Over My Dead Body

The Alternative to Multi-Site: Why Don't We Plant?

MULTI-SITE BOOK REVIEWS

Multi-Site Churches: Guidance for the Movement's Next Generation, by Scott McConnell
Reviewed by Bobby Jamieson

Franchising McChurch, by Thomas White and John Yeats
Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman

One Church, Many Congregations, by J. Timothy Ahlen and J. V. Thomas
Reviewed by Bobby Jamieson

One from the vault: John Hammett's review of The Multi-Site Revolution, by Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird

Have you ever considered what it means for a church to be healthy? Have you ever thought about how that health is nurtured and sustained? If so, have you reflected on why you answer those questions the way you do?

MISCELLANEOUS BOOK REVIEWS
After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion, by Robert Wuthnow
Reviewed by Matt McCullough

unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity…and Why it Matters, by Dave Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
Reviewed by Owen Strachan

Kindled Fire: How the Methods of C.H. Spurgeon Can Help Your Preaching, by Zack Eswine
Reviewed by Kevin McFadden

INTERVIEWS
Christians and Culture with Ken Myers

College Students and the Local Church


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