The One Thing

The One Thing


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372 Are Churches Making the Most of Missionaries on Home Assignment?
October 14, 2024

How does global mission partnership work? "In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now," (Philippians 1:4-5). The Philippian church was not just concerned about how the go

371 New Trends in Church Planting
October 07, 2024

Carey Neiuwhof has looked at some of the changes in North America, but what about the changes in Australia? We are closing more churches than starting. Is closing a church a bad thing? Fill in the blanks: we only have one church for every XXXX people i

370 Helping People Transition Churches
September 30, 2024

25% of people in churches will have switched in the last 5 years. Changing churches is hard, but it's meant to be. When is a good time for people to move churches(geography, kids and families)? What are some of realities of people switching? Ho

369 Helping Workers Transition to Retirement (Philip Hayes)
September 23, 2024

Retirement is more than golf, gardening and travel. Once someone finishes work, they enter a new phase of life. Philip Hayes (EV Church, Erina), a retired eye surgeon, thought about what would happen if we used this as a great opportunity for the gospel.

368 Helping Couples Transition to Families (Geoff and Wendy Lin)
September 14, 2024

The timeline for some people is that they meet their spouse, get married, and prepare to have kids. (It's not everyone and we love people who are single or kids is not an option for them!). But some people find themselves about to have kids, but are a

367 Helping Youth Transition to Young Adults in Church (Karl Bonner)
September 09, 2024

Youth and young adults have unique challenges. Karl Bonner from Northlight Anglican Church shares: Changes from school to post-school: from programmed to self-initiated Church provides constancy when there is a lot of change Effects of COVIDon peop

366 Helping Kids Transition to Youth (Chris Jones and Annemarie Rivers)
September 02, 2024

How do we help kids adjust to all the changes of moving to high school? Kids are going through a lot, but some churches sometimes miss the opportunities to help kids move from kids ministry (often on a Sunday morning) to a youth ministry (often on a Frida

365 Looking after the Mental Wellbeing of Others (Keith and Sarah Condie)
August 26, 2024

The gospel reminds us that we are sinners, but also broken and fragile people.As people come to church they come with their various mental health issues. Keith and Sarah Condie discuss what is the role of the church in helping people. It is not our

364 Looking after Our Mental Wellbeing as Gospel Workers (Keith and Sarah Condie)
August 19, 2024

One in five people in Australia are dealing with a mental health issue at any given moment, and gospel workers arent immune. Keith and Sarah Condie from the Mental Health Institute unpack how to maintain mental wellbeing. The difference between mental

363: Empathy vs. Compassion In Ministry (Matt Waldock)
August 11, 2024

"The sin of empathy" is a phrase attributed to family systems psychologist Dr Edwin Friedman. Matt Waldock of Manchester City Church explores why empathy is unhelpful in ministry and compassion is a better way of thinking. Compassion is suf