Year: 2009

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Independent Church Planting in Australia

Steve Chong, Guy Mason, Mikey Lynch, Andrew Heard and Al Stewart are currently in Seattle at the Acts 29 Bootcamp/World Church Planting Summit. Here’s some exciting news from Mikey’s blog to follow up from the church planting conference last month:

Independent Church Planting in Australia

Room 338, Hotel Nexus, Seattle. It’s 12:20am Tuesday morning here. We’ve settled on something. Something that may, possibly, under God’s sovereign hand, define the next few decades of evangelical Christianity in Australia.

We will lead an independent, Australian church planting network, with warm friendship and support from Acts 29. We are building to a launch in Melbourne and Sydney in late November 2009. We’re agreed to move ahead with it and Acts 29 are keen to give their support to us.

It’s big and scary stuff. Next time we meet back in Australia, we’ve asked Al Stewart to lead a devotion with us on the topic of right, godly fear. (From here)

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Carson on The Atonement

Don Carson has written a great chapter on the love of God and the intent of the cross. I’ve blogged on this before, but have had a number of conversations recently about this topic. So here’s the whole extract. If you’re not a Christian, go watch this video.

Carson on Atonement

The Love of God and the Intent of the Atonement

by D. A. Carson

Here I wish to see if the approaches we have been following with respect to the love of God may shed some light on another area connected with the sovereignty of God – the purpose of the Atonement.

The label “limited atonement” is singularly unfortunate for two reasons. First, it is a defensive, restrictive expression: here is atonement, and then someone wants to limit it. The notion of limiting something as glorious as the Atonement is intrinsically offensive. Second, even when inspected more coolly, “limited atonement” is objectively misleading. Every view of the Atonement “limits” it in some way, save for the view of the unqualified universalist. For example, the Arminian limits the Atonement by regarding it as merely potential for everyone; the Calvinist regards the Atonement as definite and effective (i.e., those for whom Christ died will certainly be saved), but limits this effectiveness to the elect; the Amyraldian limits the Atonement in much the same way as they Arminian, even though the undergirding structures are different.

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Twitter Revolution

It has arrived. I’ve reported on its impending arrival here and here. I’ve heard it talked about on a bunch of radio stations, seen it spoken about on TV, noticed increasing integration into Australian websites and personally have it mastered. It’s no longer just an American thing. What am I talking about? Twitter. What are you doing?

Twitter

Come fly with me on twitter! In case you’ve missed some of the incredible moments of the blow by blow commentary on my life – here are the ones currently on my frontpage:

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Baptism Video

On Saturday 28-Feb-09, I finally got baptised! The vid below is particularly for some family who couldn’t make it at short notice. We had lunch with family and a few friends at Terrigal Haven and then I was baptised by Tim Baldwin. Check out the pics. Vid:

“Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” (ROMANS 6:3-4)