Archive for October 2009

Images with a message

Oct 31st, 2009 | By Peter Corney | Category: Christ and Culture

by Peter Corney
In today’s image saturated culture the most well known and iconic images are those created by advertising agencies; Maca’s golden arches, Nike’s swoosh, Apple’s apple!
But in the second half of the 19th C one of the most well known images in the English speaking world was a picture of Christ painted by William [...]

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Churches – large or small?

Oct 26th, 2009 | By Peter Corney | Category: Church growth and church planting, The Church in Australia

By Peter Corney
Not long ago I attended a service at which a senior Melbourne Anglican Church leader spoke. I was encouraged by his obvious enthusiasm for mission and his concern to contextualize our churches in the local culture. But the bit that made me nervous was his comments on congregational size. He put forward the idea [...]

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The challenge of discipling today’s young adults

Oct 14th, 2009 | By Peter Corney | Category: Church growth and church planting, Youth ministry

By Peter Corney

A current challenge being faced all around the Australian Church is in bringing this generation of young adults to mature Christian discipleship.
There are a number of contemporary cultural factors that seem to be contributing to this:

The experience of family dysfunction and breakdown. With such a high proportion of marriages ending [...]

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