Former Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen reaches to news of the death of the twentieth century's greatest evangelist, Dr Billy Graham.

EV Church's 'Rhett Harris was super provocative at a ministry conference a while back. 

As Rhett was promoting ministry teams, he was arguing that rostering is contrary to the gospel.' 

Dominic Steele says "I can't let him get away with these statement and maintain credibility," so I pushed back, and we had a big debate in front of the whole seminar group.'

The thesis that Rhett put forward led me to implement a complete restructuring of the ministry practice at our church. 

I hope that you find it as revolutionary and thought provoking as we did. 

Rhett and Dominic replay that debate here in this episode from 20 February 2018. 

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'Rosters are contrary to the gospel' says Rhett Harris

Pete Tong talks about how God has led him through a difficult time as a close brother walked away from the Lord.   Plus what surprised him about the women of Luke’s gospel?  

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Evan McFarlane leads the training of around five trainees each year at St Paul's Anglican at Carlingford, Sydney.  Excitingly in one of the congregations that Evan pastors, 80% of members are involved in 1:1 discipleship.   From this group there has been a steady flow of young men and women putting themselves forward for Christian Ministry.   

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Excitingly from one of Evan's congregations, 80% are involved in 1:1 discipling pairs. From this group there's been a steady flow of men and women stepping up for ministry apprenticeships.

Michael says there has been a genuine cultural shift that now requires a legal response. But, the government will not act unless they believe there is a genuine problem that needs curing. So lots more shorter individual submissions are needed that spell out the problems.

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Yesterday the umbrella protestant 'Freedom' group 'Freedom for Faith' lodged it's submission to the Ruddock inquiry into religious freedom. Michael Kellahan explains their argument about what has gone wrong in this area, and how the law could better protect people of all faiths.

David Mansfield was John Chapman's successor as director of the Sydney Anglican Department of Evangelism.  He speaks here about the heart of Australia's greatest twentieth century evangelist. 

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It was lovely to meet up with my long term friend and former boss David Mansfield and to talk together about the greatest Australian Evangelist of the twentieth century, John Chapman.

David's story ranges from his first encounter with Chappo when he was in late high school to being their with John as he died.