Mark Dever 9 Marks

Mark Dever is the senior pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) in Washington D.C. He is the co-founder and president of 9Mark which was created to build biblically faithful churches in America.

He earned a B.A. at Duke University, a M.A. in Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a M.A, in Theology form Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Dr of Philosophy from Cambridge University.

Mark grew up in rural Kentucky and was an avid reader, reading sections from encyclopedias by the age of 10. Based on his reading and thoughts he considered himself an agnostic. Later he reread the Gospel and seeing the change in the life of Jesus’ disciples led him to becoming a Christian.

In 1994 he became the senior pastor of CHBC. CHBC is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Mark believes that Baptist churches should be led by a plurality of congregational elders as opposed to a single elder.

In 1998 Mark founded The Center for Church Reform which eventually became*9Mark

The aim of 9Mark is to help Bible believing churches become more healthy by recovering a Biblical view of the church.

The 9 marks are:-

1. Expositional preaching
2. Biblical Theology
3. '' understanding of the gospel
4. '' '' '' '' conversion
5. '' '' '' '' evangelism
6. '' '' '' '' membership
7. '' church discipline
8. Promotion of Christian discipleship and growth
   9 .Biblical Understanding of church leadership
   ( See About 9Mark)

Mark and CHBC also train church leaders an a small scale. Every year 12 interns pass through the church’s internship program that centers around ecclesiology. (See Notes for definition)

He is a member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE) where he leads the Alliance Forum. The ACE promotes the traditional doctrines of the Protestant Reformation especially Calvinism. (See Notes for more ACE info.)

Mark has become more widely recognized among conservative evangelicals as he has appeared at large nationwide conferences. He co-founded the Together for the Gospel conference.

Notes on
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Ecclesiology - definition of

Sources
Wikipedia