Mike Leite

Are we antinomian? Final salvation and good works

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by Mike Leite

Introduction In the preface of the book A Faith that is Never Alone, Andrew Sandlin asks the question, ‘does the Protestant idea of justification negate the necessity of good works?’.[1] This indeed has been a common accusation against…

Ministry

The Recruitment Problem

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 by Mike Leite

While I was training at Moore Theological College (2012- 2015) the constant rhetoric was that the Sydney Anglican Diocese was oversupplied with full-time gospel workers. We were warned from the very beginning of the need to be creative in funding…

Christian Living

Politically correct? Calling on people to praise God

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 by Mike Leite

It’s not arrogant to call on all people to praise God. In our modern Western world of the ‘politically correct’, for a person to show confidence in almost any ‘truth’ is seen and perceived as arrogant. It’s the era of ‘post-truth’…

Doctrine

“Difficult people” and the resurrection

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 by Mike Leite

Recently I was struck afresh by the great joy we’ll experience when the children of God are revealed, and our bodies are redeemed (Rom 8:18-25). I was struck in particular while praying for a brother with an intellectual disability. It wasn’t…

ACR Journal

The ACR Online- share the love

September 16, 2019September 3, 2019 by Mike Leite

From the very conception of the Australian Church Record on July 1st, 1880 (then known as ‘The Church of England Record’) the original founders of the ACR aimed to help the church of God “hold the Christian faith with a firm and unwavering…

Christian Living Doctrine Ministry

Biblical mentoring: its pattern and place

January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 by Mike Leite

One of the things that I am most thankful to God for as a young Christian leader is the older and wiser men and women that God has placed in my life. More specifically, I am thankful for those three or four sage Christian men who have invested their…

Christian Living Doctrine Ministry

Christmas: Satan’s field day?

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 by Mike Leite

Now the title of this article might appear a little too shocking for the ‘merry’ Christmas season… but let me highlight some of the ways that the great deceiver tries to take our minds off Christ during the Christmas period, before suggesting…