Adorned: How to Grow a Biblically Beautiful Church

The question of how to grow a healthy local church is not a new one. The topic is as old as the New Testament Church, and the answers given have contradicted since the New Testament era.

What doctrines or practices are foundational to a healthy church? What role, if any, does preaching play in building a healthy local church? Do good works alone make a church healthy?

Adorned addresses the question, “What makes a healthy church healthy?” using Titus 2 as a lens through which to find the biblical answer. Our goal is to bring to bear the authority and sufficiency of Scripture in relation to the topic of church health and, in so doing, frame a biblical paradigm for local church ministry.

ISBN: 9781846256165
Paperback; 96 pp.

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ADORNED

This is a book that honours the Word of God and seeks to place that above all other ‘methods’ for growing healthy churches. It is a good reminder to all pastors to preach faithfully with doctrinal depth, all the while being examples to those in our care.

Mez McConnell, Senior Pastor, Niddrie Community Church, Edinburgh, director of 20schemes and co-author of 9 Marks’ Church in Hard Places

Literature on what makes for a healthy church has been proliferating, and Justin Huffman’s Adorned merits a place alongside the best of those works. It helps all ranges of readers better understand the beauty of God’s plan for his church.

Guy Prentis Walters, Ph.D., James M. Baird, Jr. Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, USA

We need books that promote a biblical and theologically robust vision of ministry and life in the church today. Justin has done this with excellence. Read and learn how a healthy church is not divorced from doctrine, nor opposed to methods and how-tos, but how these are to be grounded in the Word believed, proclaimed and practised in our churches.

Dave Jenkins, Executive Director, Servants of Grace Ministries, Executive Editor, Theology for Life Magazine

Justin Huffman is a Christian, husband, father, pastor, speaker, and author—and thankful to God for each. A graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary, he has pastored in the USA for over 15 years. His writing has been featured on The Gospel Coalition, For the Church, Third Millennium, and elsewhere. He blogs at justinhuffman.org. Justin has been married for over 20 years to Chau, and they have four children: Edmond (from Russia), Ransom and Avery (from Vietnam), and Eva (from Arkansas).