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Uploaded: 2011-06-13T00:00:00-04:00
Description: Watch as three pastors explain how they facilitate spiritual depth among church members while trusting God to take care of width of influence.

Some churches excel in raising up a large number of disciples. Others are known for their strong quality of discipleship. What accounts for this difference? James MacDonald, Mark Dever, and Matt Chandler discuss in this roundtable video how God has particularly gifted them as pastors and how they relate to other evangelical churches with different strengths.

Chandler talks about what he learned from leading a young church with a swelling number of new converts with few experienced Christians to train them. MacDonald and Dever share how they honor other churches in their area, such as Willow Creek and McLean Bible, even while disagreeing over important aspects of ministry practice. In so doing they demonstrate their belief that the kingdom of Christ in a city is larger than any one church.

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Watch as these three pastors explain how they facilitate spiritual depth among church members while trusting God to take care of width of influence.

Mark Dever (PhD, Cambridge University) is a pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., the president of 9Marks, and a Council member of The Gospel Coalition. He is the author of many books, including Nine Marks of a Healthy Church. He and his wife, Connie, have two children.

Matt Chandler is the lead pastor of teaching at The Village Church in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and the president of Acts 29. He has authored several books, including Take Heart, Mingling of Souls, Recovering Redemption, To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain, Creature of the Word, The Explicit Gospel, and Joy in the Sorrow. Matt and his wife, Lauren, live with their three children—Audrey, Reid, and Norah—in Highland Village, Texas.