Rethinking How You Read the Bible
When we lived in Canada, before we made our move to Australia in 2007, we enjoyed watching the many birds which visited our bird feeders: a host of common Sparrows, several Gold Finches, and a few Blue Jays. Now here in Queensland our bird feeders daily attract many Cockatoos, flocks of Lorrikeets, and the occasional King Parrot. Now what do birds have to do with rethinking how you read the Bible? Well, pick up a copy of Scot McKnight's book, The Blue Parakeet (Zondervan: 2008).
There has been some talk recently about the CRCA reaching a crisis point. And I would agree,
Alan Stewart gave the morning devotional, based on 2 Timothy 3, at the In The Chute church planting conference at Collaroy Conference Centre, Collaroy, NSW. He highlighted a number of key ideas which will encourage believers and church leaders to keep going! He introduced this devotion by pointing out that while many people he knows have left...
Paul Dale planted Church by the Bridge in Kirribilli, NSW, in 2005. He spoke at In the Chute Church Planting Conference hosted by The Geneva Push Network at Collaroy, NSW, 08 December 2009. He gave 12 suggestions for building a healthy church plant: Build a team, don't do it soloHave clarity, not vagueness with what you plan t...
The message never changes, but if we are ever going to reach our world, our methods must change. But how can the church embrace change and still be itself? The premise of Sweet's book, Carpe Manana, is that “for better or worse, a new world is no longer coming – it is here. Our minds, our bodies, our professions, our m...
There is much happening at the moment in the world of church planting. It is exciting stuff. In all of this a number of people have asked for clarification regarding the new church planting network called Geneva. People have wondered what it will be doing and what it might offer. Geneva will be run by a board of Australian church planters whi...
An article by Martin Geluk was distributed through the CRCA general mailing list in which the fourfold task(FFT) adopted by the CRCA was discussed. In this article Martin made the following comments: "I have found it both strange and sad that with the formulation and explanation of the fourfold task of the...
The CRCA Synod 2006 recognised that the task of alignment is a continual process. For this reason Synod decided to adopt TASK FOUR: “to reform continually the life of the denomination (including our church ethos, customs, church order, use of resources, denominational committees, support staff and agencies) to encourage and enable the fulfilment of...
