As suggested in the question, there has bben a recent movement to direct evangelism and other Christian activities toward the secular marketplace (I understand ‘market place’ as somewhere in the secular domain, outside of ‘walls’ of the church). In Australia, for instance, the number of non-churched is growing and people are no longer willing to step into the…
The last few months, I have spent time sorting out the principles of my church’s evangelistic strategy. The short of it is that we must move towards being heavily weighted towards incarnational evangelism in intent and action. This will enable greater engagement with greater numbers of non-churched people in our community, and in turn this will…
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Belief blockers are issues or ideas that stop people from considering the Christian gospel and changing their worldview in acceptance of it – ie become and stay a Christian. As a ministry staff team we have been doing some thinking about this in our most recent professional in-service. Now the most recent study of Belief…
Sometimes it is easy for Christians to roll their eyes and ignore the criticism and general dislike that others have of them. Just reading the opinion letters in the SMH can give you the idea that there is nothing more distasteful or abhorrent than being governed by a government leaders who on the record declare themselves…
Read more dislike of Christians = dislike of Jesus + dislike of Christian hypocrisy
When you’re in your thirties it’s very hard to make a new friend. Whatever the group is that you’ve got now that’s who you’re going with, you’re not interviewing, you’re not looking at any new people, you’re not interested in seeing any applications. They don’t know the places … They don’t know the activities. If…
Read more Jerry Seinfeld gets why its hard to do relational evangelism!
Our latest addition to our preaching staff, the Emeritus Archdeacon Ken Allen, has been a tremendous encouragement for our church. I remember hearing him in 2011 and thinking, this man is truly “old school” in his preaching style. And as I’ve been maturing as a Christian and as I see preaching fads come and go,…
Along with four weeks of special Sunday Church services where we aim to present Jesus clearly and call people to respond to him, during May our church is putting on 3 other special events for your unchurched friends and family. The last of which is our evening with Jackie Stoneman. Tuesday 21st May in the SPCH…
Along with four weeks of special Sunday Church services where we aim to present Jesus clearly and call people to respond to him, during May our church is putting on 3 other special events for all people. One which is worth highlighting is our QnA night with John Dickson Monday 20th May at Event Cinemas…
Along with four weeks of special Sunday Church services where we aim to present Jesus clearly and call people to respond to him, during May our church is putting on 3 other special events for your unchurched friends and family. The first of which is an evening with Justine Toh Wednesday 8th May in the…
Along with four weeks of special Sunday Church services where we aim to present Jesus clearly and call people to respond to him, during May our church is putting on 3 other special events for your unchurched friends: Justine Toh Wednesday 8th May in the SPCH Church Foyer — 7:30pm till 9:00pm Justine will lead an interactive…
Taste and See that Jesus is good! 