Our Joyful Duty

Mark Dever talks to Peter Hastie

(March 2008)

Dr Mark E. Dever serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. He is also the executive Director for 9 Marks (formerly The Centre for Church Reform, CCR) in Washington, DC. 9 Marks encourages pastors of local churches to look to the Bible for instruction on how to organise and lead their churches. Dr Dever has written several books.

Perhaps his best-known is Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Crossway, 2000, 2nd ed., 2004). He has also published A Display of God’s Glory—Basics of Church Structure: Deacons, Elders, Congregationalism, and Leadership, The Deliberate Church – Building Biblically in a Haphazard Age (2005), which he co-wrote with Paul Alexander, Promises Kept – The Message of he New Testament, and a companion volume on the Old Testament. His latest book is The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, published by Crossway books.

Dr Dever received his Doctor of Philosophy in ecclesiastical history from Cambridge University, his Master of Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

He and his wife Connie live and minister with their son, Nathan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. His ministry
website can be found at www.9marks.org

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You can find the complete interview with Mark in the March 2008 edition of Australian Presbyterian. This issue and other past issues can be downloaded from this website by selecting the Past Issues link from the Menu.