The trellis and the vine: the ministry mind-set that changes everything Colin Marshall and Tony Payne (Matthias Media, 2009) This new Australian book picks up on some of the things I explored in Going Parachurch, distinguishing between the organic church and the institutional church. Our true focus must always be […]
When I write, I’ve developed a habit of starting in a completely stripped down environment (TextEdit) as a way of getting words out with minimal distractions. Now, I’ve just tried Ommwriter. It’s an attempt to recover a more organic, tangible and immersive writing experience. If you harbour strange longings for a pen […]
Part 1, part 2, part 3 In this series I’ve highlighted that mission doesn’t need to be hinged to a denomination, yet missionaries will seek connections in terms of the capital-C Church, the organic Body.
Of the five ministry roles Paul refers to in Ephesians 4:11, present-day Protestant Christianity broadly recognises the pastor, the teacher and the evangelist in some form or other. The apostle, however, forms another biblical prototype for ministry.
We don’t visit many of our sidebar links on a regular basis, but they’re some of our first ports of call for stuff we need to know! Steve Addison recently released his book Movements that change the world, a first-rate manual for missions and parachurch. I’m hogging the Ridley library’s […]
Monday night was three hours of raw emotion at Opera Australia‘s Aïda. We’ve only been to a couple of operas but we love the way opera captures the ebb and flow of emotions in all their unbridled power!
Christian ministers talk a lot about ‘pastoral ministry’ (running a local church) and often call it ‘the ministry’. This is the established ministry path in every denomination, and denominational trainers may even present it as definitive. However, as I explored last post, parachurch and mission do not require denominational endorsement. Still, […]
Meet Jesus at uni 