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How I came to know Jesus – Mike Leite

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 by Mike Leite

The story of God’s grace and mercy in bringing me to faith in Jesus is very ordinary. Ordinary in the sense that mine is not a spectacular conversion story. God used ordinary means. He used ordinary people. And thus, mine is an ordinary story. And…

ACR Journal

Are we antinomian? Final salvation and good works

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by Mike Leite

IntroductionIn 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 the…

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’ (the word of the…

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 confidence”.[1]Since…

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…