Subtitled: A marketing consultant advises early church leaders, this provides perceptive insight into some contemporary church growth strategies. …Let’s begin with one of your leading PR men, Peter, who is clearly a gifted communicator. We believe he would find that our seminar “Winning Techniques for Effective Communication” would help him be more effective still! Unfortunately, …

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This attractive advertising card arrived this week. I’ve mentioned the Service before. Consider yourself invited. If you’re going to be in Sydney that night it will be worth attending. Say ‘hello’ and maybe we can find a good cup of coffee afterward. If you can’t make it I’ll see what I can do about publicising …

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Sri Lankan pastor Ajith Fernando’s online essay To Serve Is To Suffer has received a substantial amount of favourable comment on the blogosphere. Some quotes: We have measured success by the standards of the world and fail to challenge the world with the radically different biblical way to fulfillment. The contemporary emphasis on efficiency and …

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In some sort of relationship to my previous post, lots of other Christians have disagreements with each other, not just presbyterian/reformed ones. Some disagreements are absolutely necessary and cannot be avoided. This video features Brian MacLaren being questioned by Scot McKnight. McKnight describes himself as an anabaptist and has had some charitable things to say …

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