Nine Marks of a Healthy Church / How to Build a Healthy Church: A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership (9marks)

Classic 9Marks Texts for Every Pastor, Now Available in a Set

Mark Dever’s best-selling book Nine Marks of a Healthy Church has impacted thousands of pastors worldwide. This classic text offers tried-and-true biblical principles for leading a church toward health by expanding on each of the 9 marks―expositional preaching, gospel doctrine, concern for discipleship, and more.

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church is now available in a set with How to Build a Healthy Church by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander, the companion handbook for pastors and church leaders on how to build a healthy church grounded in the gospel. This practical resource offers readers a helpful framework for building this type of ministry, addressing a multitude of topics such as the role of the pastor, congregational singing, the importance of elders, new members’ classes, and adult education.

Paired together, these two helpful books create a timeless set that is essential for every pastor’s library.

• How to Build a Healthy Church is the revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church (978-1-58134-738-8) featuring a redesigned cover and an added chapter on the role of exposition in evangelism
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church has sold over 130,000 units
• Both books are published in partnership with 9Marks

Mark Dever (PhD, Cambridge University) is the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and president of 9Marks (9Marks.org). Dever has authored over a dozen books and speaks at conferences nationwide. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Connie, and they have two adult children.

Paul Alexander (MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the pastor of Grace Covenant Baptist Church in Elgin, Illinois, where he lives with his wife, Laurie, and their six children.