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 [...]

Youth work – lessons from the past.
 
A lecture delivered by Peter Corney at the Ridley Youth Ministry Conference, July 2004.
 
 Some historical observations
Imagine it’s just at the turn of the century in the UK (1890s to 1900) and you are wandering about a large town or city in the UK and you stumble across a group [...]

By Peter Corney
There has been a profound change in the way many western people understand themselves in relation to God, spirituality and religious concepts. In short God and the self have blurred into one. The forces that have brought about this change are complex but here are three key factors in the process.
First, out of [...]