What Is a Healthy Church Member?

by Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2008

Overview

What Is a Healthy Church Member? biblically and practically instructs church members in ways they can labor for the health of their church. Following the theme of Mark Dever’s book What Is a Healthy Church?, pastor Thabiti Anyabwile attempts to answer the next natural question: “What does a healthy church member look like in the light of Scripture?”

God intends for us to play an active and vital part in the body of Christ, the local church. He wants us to experience the local church as a home more profoundly wonderful and meaningful than any other place on earth. He intends for his churches to be healthy places and for the members of those churches to be healthy as well. This book explains how membership in the local church can produce spiritual growth in its members and how each member can contribute to the growth and health of the whole.

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Key Features

• Examines what a healthy church member should look like in the light of Scripture
• Explains how membership in the local church can produce spiritual growth in its members
• Explores how each member can contribute to the growth and health of the whole

Contents

• A Healthy Church Member Is an Expositional Listener
• A Healthy Church Member Is a Biblical Theologian
• A Healthy Church Member Is Gospel Saturated
• A Healthy Church Member Is Genuinely Converted
• A Healthy Church Member Is a Biblical Evangelist
• A Healthy Church Member Is a Committed Member
• A Healthy Church Member Seeks Discipline
• A Healthy Church Member Is a Growing Disciple
• A Healthy Church Member Is a Humble Follower
• A Healthy Church Member Is a Prayer Warrior

Top Highlights

“Third, expositional listening protects the gospel and our lives from corruption.” (Page 21)

“Expositional listening benefits us, first, by cultivating a hunger for God’s Word. As” (Page 20)

“Fifth, expositional listening benefits the gathered congregation.” (Page 21)

“The health of the local church depends on the willingness of its members to inspect their hearts, correct their thinking, and apply their hands to the work of the ministry.” (Page 15)

“Second, practicing biblical theology helps us to overcome our wrong ideas.” (Page 29)

Praise for the Print Edition

In an era when Christians seem confused about what kind of community the church ought to be, here’s a helpful handbook outlining the church’s true biblical priorities, especially as they apply to individual church members.

—John MacArthur, pastor, Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, California

Given the state of so many of our churches today, this book arrives not a moment too soon.

—R. Albert Mohler Jr., president and Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: What Is a Healthy Church Member?
• Editor: Thabiti M. Anyabwile
• Series: 9Marks
• Publisher: Crossway
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 128
• Christian Group: Baptist
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Ecclesiology

About Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Thabiti M. Anyabwile is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman and the author of numerous books, including What Is a Healthy Church Member? and Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons. He serves as a council member with the Gospel Coalition, is a lead writer for 9Marks Ministries, and regularly blogs at Pure Church, hosted by the Gospel Coalition.