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	<title>The Briefing » Pastoral Ministry</title>
	
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		<title>Building new engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Stewart | Tony Payne</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In his recent Briefing article ‘What is church for?’, Phillip Jensen suggested that we are “somewhere between everywhere and nowhere as to the importance of church”.1 The same could be said about church planting.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>What is distinctive about the ministries of women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 22:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As I said in The Briefing #398, these are some of my  reflections on what God has taught me about the ministries of women. Following on from the importance of women in ministry considering themselves to be Bible teachers and of cultivating joy in evangelism, in this article I want to talk about the...<br/>
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		<title>Devoted to ministry and prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 23:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[flickr: notsogoodphotography

You know those times when you read a Bible passage so familiar that you barely see it any more? Then a word or phrase jumps out at you, your perspective shifts, and you see it clearly. It&#8217;s like those 3D puzzles where the picture suddenly comes into focus. ...<br/>
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		<title>After the NIV, then what? The NIV.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/?p=17237</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote about choosing a Bible translation for public use in church. At my church, St Michael&#8217;s Cathedral in Wollongong, we&#8217;ve decided to go with the 2011 version of the New International Version (NIV11), recently published by Biblica (a.k.a. the International Bible...<br/>
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		<title>Among the apostles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our own experiences often affect how we read the Bible. Take Romans 16:7, for example:

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. (Rom 16:7)

There's something in this verse that often catches the eye of...<br/>
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		<title>Preaching: to tweet or not to tweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[That is the question. At least that&#8217;s the question raised by the twitter feed from my treasured old seminary, Moore College (@MooreCollege if you want to follow them!)

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		<title>Wanted: more church invaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[flickr: The Arches

A few years ago, our family of six left a congregation full of parents with young children, and joined a church made up mostly of university students.1 This wasn&#8217;t an ideological statement on our part: it was simply because my husband works in university ministry, and...<br/>
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		<title>A second anniversary for Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many North Americans readers will know the second great anniversary that occurs this Sunday is that 200 years ago today, Adoniram and Ann Judson sailed from Massachusetts, on February 19, 1812, apparently the first Protestant American missionaries to travel overseas.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>Effective discipling and disciple-making</title>
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		<comments>http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2012/01/effective-discipling-and-disciple-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Late last year a conference was put on with the title Exploring Effective Ministry Under God. There were a number of presentations about church membership, training, mobilisation, and lots more from a range of contributors, spearheaded by Tim Sims (who conducted the research on Sydney Anglican...<br/>
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		<title>What is church for?</title>
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		<comments>http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2011/12/what-is-church-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We Christians are very interested in church, and we have vested interests in church. So the question of what is church—and what is it for—is important to us. But is it the right question? (more…)<br/>
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