Last week I attended a church planting conference at Moore College with some friends. The event was well-attended with around 150 participants. I interacted with Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist and a few Pentecostal ministers. While we obviously would not agree on various doctrines, I found the meeting to be helpful and
My neighbour Julia is a Lebanese widow in her seventies who speaks very little English. When we moved to her neighbourhood eight years ago, she was kind and friendly but from a distance. You need to understand that she was purposely distant with me after she knew that I was
I’ve recently been thinking about church planting and will present three posts on the topic. I hope this will interest and provoke you, especially if you have not considered or experienced life in a new church. Do We Need More Churches? Based on the National Church Life Surveys, Sydney Anglican
My pastor, Steven Mock, preached on Psalm 96 on Sunday. He called this Psalm “a missionary melody.” “Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!” There were three key points that Steven made from the text: 1. Mission starts with worship (v. 1) Mission is
What should be the first thing you blog about? Well, I am not sure yet… I have read all the blogs on GMT and liked some and thought others went right above my head. There was one blogger that I looked forward to reading her blog as it always cheered
“Before you can get someone saved, you first have to get them lost.” The primary need of our day is to help lost people realise they are sinners. And that is difficult in a society of relative morality. There is a school of thinking in Fundamentalism that focuses
One bad habit of a Christian is to think of the gospel only as a decision—a commitment which was made years ago. So when he hears the gospel mentioned, he thinks “I’ve done that already,” almost as if God’s message of salvation has no further bearing on his life today.
Christmas as we all know is a busy time of the year. People hustling and bustling about buying gifts, decorating trees, meeting relatives, running here running there. It is a never ending cycle! Just visit your local Westfields and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Many Christians are also caught
This last week my church had four days of evangelistic outreach with Steve Pettit and his team. The gospel was preached simply and many responded to it. I was blessed to see this team giving of themselves to reach out to others and see the gospel change lives. It was
