By Peter Corney
Albert Einstein said: Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. Einstein’s insight is very valuable but it is also true that counting some things can be an important tool for evaluation of effectiveness and a reality check on our ministry.
Numbers are not everything – quality [...]

By Peter Corney

Imagine a fourteenth century church which has a series of beautiful stained glass windows that tell the biblical story.
They begin on the south side of the nave near the entrance and font with a window that depicts Adam and Eve as the crown of God’s creation, their act of disobedience and their ejection [...]

By Peter Corney
A worrying trend is at large in the Australian church today. The servant leadership model of Jesus is being misused and distorted to justify an inadequate style of leadership that is exercised by some pastors and ministers of local congregations. A leadership style that avoids creative initiative, is reactive and passive rather than [...]

By Peter Corney
In part one of these two articles I made the point that while we are in a difficult environment for growing Churches there are healthy growing congregations out there. It is only common sense that Christian leaders should be studying them to identify what makes them effective.
The following are the principles and practices [...]

By Peter Corney
There is sometimes a real tension between Biblical theology and some of the pragmatics promoted by proponents of Church growth. But there can also be a false dichotomy created between them, particularly by those who do not understand the difference between ministry and leadership.(1) It is now well established that to plant a [...]

The 2007 Annual Arrow Lecture
By the Rev. Peter Corney OAM
Overview
1. Five observations about what’s happening in the general culture
2. The five challenges for contemporary Christian leaders.
What’s happening in the general culture?
There are so many things happening that have implications for the church that its [...]

Peter Corney, May 2004
(Parts 1&2)
Part 1.
” Glory – and a culture without weight.”
(Summery: The relationship between the Glory of God and culture. Once a culture looses its faith foundation it has a tendancy to hollow out and loose ‘weight’. Is this now the state of  Western culture?)
Psalm 24 describes God as “The King of Glory”
Lift [...]

William Wilberforce (1759 -1833)
By Peter Corney
This year is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in British territories (1807), an achievement due largely to the tireless efforts of William Wilberforce. By any measure Wilberforce is an outstanding example of Christian leadership and a model of the way a Christian should be at [...]

RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA – REVIVING THE CONNECTION.
 
By Peter Corney. July 2005
 
Even the casual observer of the last federal election in Australia could not miss the extraordinary amount of public comment and interest in the revival of the connection between religion and politics in Australia.
 
Those with longer memories recalled the dramatic days of Bob [...]

EQUIPPING CHRISTIANS FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
 
By The Rev. Peter Corney OAM
 
(Delivered on 25/3/09 at the inauguration of the Center of Education and Youth Studies and the Micha 6:8 Centre for Aid and Development Studies  at Tabor College Victoria Australia. The Centre’s are partnerships between Tabor College, Eastern University and Tear Australia and between Tabor and  the [...]