It was good to see David Burke at the General Assembly of Australia this week. He and Paul Cooper were launching their book Read In The Light, a compilation of essays relating to the Declaratory Statement that the Australian Presbyterian Church adopted at its formation which formalises its understanding of certain aspects of the Westminster …
Culture takes time to establish, and maybe longer to change. In this guest-post at JD Greear’s blog Andrew Hopper talks about the way in which setting and sharing a vision builds generosity as people get a sense of what could grow if they release resources to support it. Sometimes this giving and releasing will be …
Stan Gale spent the days after his birth in an incubator. He received that life sustaining and growing support in isolation. As a disciple of Jesus we are told that we need support for our life to be sustained and our growth supported. We need an incubator. But not in isolation. The church is God’s …
Mark Galli considers the contemporary evangelical church and observes that when it adopts the emphasis of social transformation as goal instead of the nurture of Christians that it sows the seed of its own obsolescence. The church is not designed to transform society, and when it teaches Christians that societal transformation should be a Christian’s …
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