I like these questions from Timmy Brister. They are insightful, but don’t just set you up to bury your head in your hands and cry out: ‘I’ve/We’ve failed; I’ve/We’ve failed.’ They actually point to positive and constructive patterns of church life. 1. If our church would cease to exist in our city, would it be …
Being a somewhat introverted personality, I’m not a great conversationalist. I can talk the leg off a chair. If there’s something to talk about. After we moved to Melbourne it was a bit easier. Mostly everyone will fall into a conversation about football or weather. Life in the country is a bit more challenging since …
The Presbyterian Church of Australia, particularly through its Victorian Assembly, has been developing links with churches in Africa, one of which, I believe, is the Presbyterian Church in Malawi. Steve Salyards, at G.A. Junkie (yep, that’s what he calls his blog) has news about arrangements by which “the three synods of the Church of Central …
There is a temptation within contemporary church planting to take the preferences and tastes of the group or individuals that they are trying to reach and excise as much from the practice and culture of their corporate meetings that may be alien to those people. In Presbyterianism in Australia one can observe a distancing (in …
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