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Youth Ministry: Why care about Y?

Why care about Y? is a conference on how to reach Generation Y. The brochure says it will be a critically important seminar in understanding how to reach our 12-29 year olds. 9:30am Saturday 31st March 2007 @ Wesley Conference Centre (Pitt St, Sydney). $25. Greg Clarke & Jodie McNeill are speaking. Rego form here… Info here…

I’m thinking about going… are you keen?
(If you’ve already got ministry to Gen Y nailed – I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!)

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Shine, Jesus Shine

Last night we travelled into the big smoke for the Moore College Graduation. The talk was a cracker and it was super encouraging hearing what each of the grads are now up to as they preach Jesus in Sydney and beyond. It was fun to catch up with friends & family. I don’t go into the city often… so took some pics to document our excursion. Congratulations to my brother-in-law Martin.

Did you go? Did you enjoy the song the pipe organist played at the end?!?!

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Ten reasons why XXXCHURCH should be in Second Life

xxxchurch.com has just set up a property in Second Life. Below are 10 reasons why they think that they ought to be in 2nd life. It’s crazy how seriously 2nd lifers take 2nd life! It’s crazy the amount of money spent on 2nd life! It’s not that difficult to believe the dodgy stuff that goes on in 2nd life… it just reflects the reality of sin in our 1st life! I think it’s a good thing to have Christians (lifechurch.tv have set up a posse in 2ndLife) in 2nd life… it’s bizarre to think about – but there is a good opportunity to preach the Lord Jesus and his forgiveness of sin in this make believe world.

  • 1) There are 4.2 million members of the Second Life virtual world.
  • 2) Nearly half of all Americans who belong to online communities claim that the virtual world they inhabit is as important as the real world.
  • 3) In the last 24 hours over 1.7 million real US dollars will be spent in Second Life.
  • 4) Half of the most popular destinations in the Second Life world are pornographic.
  • 5) There is actual Second Life porn—shot and distributed exclusively in the virtual world.
  • 6) Sex brothels are common in Second Life and include the availability of virtual sexual encounters with children avatars.
  • 7) For 220 Second Life dollars (about $1.30) you can participate in a fantasy rape at a Second Life rape club.
  • 8) 44 percent of virtual sex in Second Life hermaphrodite/intersexed ageplay groups is father to daughter in nature.
  • 9) 50 percent of those on Second Life participate in gender bending. Gender bending: when your Second Life avatar is opposite of your real world gender.
  • 10) There are zero sanctions against virtual, Second Life, child pornography in the United States—worldwide only the Netherlands and Italy are taking steps to pass laws banning this activity.

From here

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Complementarianism

I was asked what my thoughts were on a woman's role and church (here and at church).  As requested, here is a link to a free book edited by John Piper.  Also this website has some helpful resources.  Plus this one (an Australian site).  Let me know what you think…