November, 2018 - Australian Church Record

Evangelism: What is it?

November 27, 2018 by ACR Team

‘Evangelism’ has recently risen to the status of what Stephen Potter would call an “OK word”: to utter it is to be ecclesiastically ‘one up’ straight away. (Things were different 20 years ago.) The term stands for something that the modern church…

Biblical friendship (part 1): What is a friend?

November 26, 2018November 25, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

Over the past few years several studies have shown that social isolation and loneliness poses a bigger risk to our health than smoking or obesity. Loneliness has the same effects on your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It increases your chances…

Considering Christ with your children at Christmas: An advent Top 5

November 20, 2018 by Jocelyn Loane

It’s not like Christmas sneaks up on you. I think my first mince pie sighting this year was in early October. By November I find I can’t resist the urge to buy more gift tags at every single check out display, in case we are gripped by a nation-wide…

The evangelical church in Scotland: An interview with Matt Baines

November 18, 2018 by Matthew Baines

Matt Baines is originally from Sydney where he has been working as an assistant minister at Minchinbury Anglican Church until August this year, when he and his family moved to Edinburgh. Here, Matt shares with us some of his early reflections…

Feminism and faith: Some further thoughts

November 13, 2018 by Christine Bransdon

This is the second part of Christine’s article. The first part can be found here. I have invested a lot of effort in researching feminism and trying to express why I think it is at odds with Christianity. I’ve struggled to reconcile the…

Making sense of feminism and faith

November 11, 2018 by Christine Bransdon

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a name that is currently dominating feminist Instagram. Despite her youth, gender, and ethnicity, she has just been elected to Congress in the mid-term elections. After she won the democratic primary in June,…

Real Faith

November 7, 2018November 6, 2018 by Tom Habib

This article was originally published in the ACR’s latest journal, which contains lots of helpful reflections on evangelism. You can access the journal in full here. I want people to really believe The simple goal of evangelism is for people…