What is a Healthy Church?

Michael Spencer at InternetMonk highly recommends Mark Dever's What Is a Healthy Church?

... Mark Dever is a very interesting combination of scholar - Ph.d from Cambridge, Southern Baptist pastor in a renewed church in Washington, D.C. .... Dever gives very interesting, helpful, broadly ecumenical help for churches that stands distinctively apart from the predictable rhetoric of the church growth movement.

Dever deals with everything from the necessity of church membership, to theologically driven preaching, to church discipline. It’s a book without gimmicks that shares substance instead of anecdotes and fluff. Dever isn’t afraid to say what’s out of fashion, or to tweak those who have made denigrating the traditional church their calling card. ....

internetmonk.com: Recommendation and Review: What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever