Mikey Lynch commences online ruminations about his recent trip to the US. In this post he deals with a largely ignored, but substantial, dynamic in church planting: transfer growth. We never say it is. The books rarely talk about it explicitly, the hero-story of church planters is always ‘We arrived, just the two of us, …
One of our members thought I’d find this clip from New Life Digest ’93 amusing. Quite. A story found in a corner of a church bulletin: Three small boys were bragging about their fathers. The first boy said: ‘My dad writes a few short lines on a piece of paper, calls it a poem, and …
Steve Cree is lead pastor at Brisbane’s Creek Road Presbyterian Church. Before that he planted Southern Cross Presbyterian in Lismore, New South Wales. At the Creek Road blog he has posted what he calls an early draft of his philosophy of ministry. It follows the ‘Ministry Papers’ format and centrally provides details of books which …
In the latest issue of online theological journal Themelios, Sinclair Ferguson ponders over four decades of pulpit ministry and provides a reflective Ten Commandments For Preachers. Christians would do well to encourage these qualities in their preachers, and, of course, in themselves. The outline: 1. Know your Bible better. 2. Be a man of prayer. …
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