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Paradigm shift: planting movement is go!

Last week, Wollongong Bishop Al Stewart, Central Coast Evangelical Church's Andrew Heard and Steve Chong, lead pastor at Kirkplace and director of RICE, cast a bold vision to launch a new national network as they gathered potential church planters to think through how to make 'talk' of church planting 'action'.

Rev Rudd’s woeful Rod Laver sermon

I do not envy the Prime Minister one bit. As a public, committed Christian he was required to preach a 'sermon' at a 'service' that invited along everyone but God.

Hoxton Park opens doors

Hoxton Parks new multipurpose building opened yesterday, but has already brought over 20 people to church after more than a year in construction.

A church without worship?

In the past 30 years we have seen our churches move rapidly away from formal liturgy. More and more congregations are devising 'do-it-yourself' church services. Everything seems up for grabs.

A fraction of the whole

It is a magnificent achievement for a first-time author to be short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize ... but I don't like this book.

Qantas vs Jetstar

If only Qantas executives knew the Christian scene in Sydney better: they might have invented their two-brand (Jetstar and Qantas) strategy a long time ago.

A church without worship?

In this months Southern Cross, David Peterson suggests that churches have drifted away from praising God in their gatherings. He says that rather than keeping worship as a specific part of their gatherings, Christians have taken it out of their time together. How important is worship to our church meetings? And what role does/should it play? Jessica Matthews digs a little deeper into these questions.

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