Month: August 2019
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Where is your vision for the church?
I am the youngest child in my family. I have two older brothers and a sister and there is a five to ten year gap between them and me. When I was little, on the odd occasion my parents went out, they left my siblings in charge of themselves, of the house and of me.…
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Wise: Transforming Pastoral Ministry
The Right Rev’d Matt Brain, Bishop of Bendigo, says early in his new book Wise that: “The idea of ‘life-long learning’ has become a truism. However, if those called and deployed into pastoral ministry do not embrace the need to be continually learning, they will find their effectiveness dulled.” This book makes a significant contribution…
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Learning about your local community
How well does your church know the local community? Do you know who lives in your community and what they do? The local church exists specifically to be part of God’s mission in the world. To love and serve its local community to the best of its ability. In order to do this well, it…
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Slow hunches and half ideas: the future of the church
Have you had an unformed idea or a hunch, that you’ve sat on for years, about the future of the church, mission and ministry? Sharing these ‘slow hunches’ and ‘half ideas’ might be a vital step in helping them come to fruition. For many years in ministry I tended to keep my ideas to myself,…