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As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

Mark Dever

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

Mark Dever

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

Mark Dever

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Mark Dever

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

Mark Dever

Mark Dever

Mark Dever

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Born: August 28, 1960 (age 64)

Bio: Mark E. Dever is the senior pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and the president of 9Marks, a Christian ministry he co-founded "in an effort to build biblically faithful churches in America." He is known as a Calvinist preacher.

Known for:

9 Marks of a Healthy Church (1997)
What Is a Healthy Church? (2007)
The Gospel and Personal Evangelism (2007)
The Deliberate Church (2005)
The message of the Old Testament (2006)

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