Anyone who knows me well will be aware that I like things to be both relational and to be professional. However, it can often be difficult to achieve both of these goals at the same time…
Read my thoughts in my blog at sydneyanglicans.net.
Category: Ministry
In Patrick Lencioni’s book ‘The Three Signs of a Miserable Job’ he states that the inability to measure results is one of the three key causes of job dissatisfaction. The problem for ministers is that most of the important results of our ministry are immeasurable.
Read my thoughts and readers’ comments in my weekly blog at sydneyanglicans.net.
When a person speaks about his or her success in ministry, the response from others is often lukewarm. Perhaps it’s a Christian version of the so-called ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome’, in which Aussies habitually cut down high achievers to the median level of mediocrity. But is this a Christian response?
Read my answer in my article at sydneyanglicans.net.
Mark Driscoll’s ‘Prophet, Priest and King’ allegory has helpfully pushed us to recognise that God has not made a one-size-fits-all role for people passionate about Word ministry in Sydney.
Read my comments in my article at sydneyanglicans.net.
There was a time when ‘artificial’ was the buzz. We loved artificial grass, artificial light, artificial sweeteners, and even artificial intelligence. In the last few years our society has been bombarded with artificial community. But, like everything artificial, there is nothing like the real thing!
Read my thoughts on ‘getting away’ in my article published at sydneyanglicans.net, as well as in Christian Venues Association’s ‘Somewhere to Go’ directory.