The One Thing

Student Ministries have always been a fertile ground for evangelism and training of Christians throughout the world. One of the challenges for the local church can be how they can support this ministry, and how they can encourage that ministry to support and value the local church.

There’s no doubting that those born in the shadow of the new millennium have a particular way of seeing the world – never knowing a time without digital technology and raised in an air of international optimism have to count for something! So how do you best reach them with a message that is already thousands of years old?

Mission isn’t just ensuring your congregation are all ready to share the Gospel, but that every event is organised so that it adds to your Gospel impact.

In this episode Al discusses with Derek Hanna what the Bible would call ‘healthy masculinity’ and the basis for promoting a particular viewpoint of manhood today.

Derek Hanna speaks to Christian speaker and author Al Stewart on putting to death that sort of behaviour which the world rightly criticises, but also remembering that Christians take their source of manhood from a definitive source.

Derek Hanna speaks to Paul Webb, church planter and Anglican minister from Chester Hill, who has pioneered a range of techniques for both evangelising and maturing members of a congregation where there is no clear cultural ‘majority’.

Scott and Derek talk to Adam Ch’ng, the pastor of Cross and Crown in Melbourne an ABC (Australian Born Chinese) about what pastors need to understand about the Asian heritage if they’re to successfully recruit Asians to the ministry.

Scott and Derek talk with John Dickson, author of A Doubter’s Guide To The Bible and 16 other books, about how ‘live’ this question is in the modern mindset, and what Christian leaders can do to prepare believers to face it.

What are the questions people are asking about Christianity today – not the ones we want to talk about, but the ones unbelievers really want answers to?

Scott and Derek discuss the importance of self-awareness in serving God across a multitude of responsibilities, and talk about key ways of understanding how your Creator has ‘wired’ you.