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Month: August 2025

A global response to a big idea: Translating the Epistles with words children can actually understand

September 6, 2025August 29, 2025 by Kirsten McKinlay
Along with his wife Erica and four children, Matt Dodd serves with the saints at Lakemba Anglican Church in Sydney, where he is Senior Pastor. Recently the ACR spoke to him about a long-term project to translate the Epistles into language that…
Categories Ministry, Youth & Kids

Do “sheep bite”? Rethinking a popular pastoral phrase

August 19, 2025 by Callan Pritchard
I have often heard church leaders use a phrase like, “sheep bite and kick,” to describe challenges and conflict in church life. In this metaphor “biting” signals hostility and stubbornness.  Though it sounds biblical, this phrase troubles…
Categories Ministry

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