How to Build a Healthy Church (Second Edition)

A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership

By: Mark Dever, Paul Alexander, D. A. Carson

A newly updated and rebranded edition of The Deliberate Church

If churches are the dwelling place of God’s spirit, why are so many built around the strategies of man? Eager for church growth, leaders can be lured by entertaining new schemes, forgetting to keep doctrinal truth as their driving force. Churches must find a way out of the maze of programs and methods and humbly lean on the sufficiency of God’s word.

How to Build a Healthy Church, a revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church, challenges leaders to evaluate their motivations for ministry and provides practical examples of healthy, deliberate leadership. Written as a companion for Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, it covers important topics, including membership, worship, responsible evangelism, and church roles. This is more than a step-by-step plan to mimic; it’s a biblical blueprint for pastors, elders, and anyone committed to the church’s vitality.

©2021 Mark Dever (P)2021 Crossway

Good book, very interesting and practical, yet very biblical!

I am a pastor’s wife. This is a book for pastors. Great advice and experience shared for leadership. Our senior pastor and staff are studying another of his books and I thought this one would give me a better understanding of the overall plan for a healthy church. Loved it!

Excellent resource. Very practical.

This book has a lot of the same information that is in most of the Nine Marks material. But this book does a wonderful job of explaining each topic in great detail.

Inspiring and encouraging

.for those who wish to have a biblical ministry without falling to rhe culture and mere corporate practices.

Biblical Church Leadership

Every Church leader needs to read this. Very practical, Scripture-based model for leading your church to health. Just don't try to rush it. Teach the gospel first - all of it, then teach them the Biblical model for church structure.