The Big Questions Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/the-big-questions/ Fri, 05 May 2017 05:56:35 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png The Big Questions Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/the-big-questions/ 32 32 The Big Questions: “Converting the heathen” https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/big-questions-converting-heathen/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/big-questions-converting-heathen/#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:56:06 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=22563 It may have been a common phrase in days gone by but talk of “converting the heathen” is now loaded with problematic connotations in a world scarred by western cultural hegemony and interfaith insensitivity. Who is left to convert today and should we be active in that mission? Duncan Barlow, pastor at Toowong Uniting Church ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/big-questions-converting-heathen/feed/ 0 What do we really mean when we talk about Christian leadership? https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/really-mean-talk-christian-leadership/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/really-mean-talk-christian-leadership/#respond Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:34:39 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=22473 You may have heard the phrase “Christian leadership” within church circles. In the Queensland Synod leadership is one of five priority directions. But what does it actually mean and how much should Jesus inform your understanding of it? Scott Guyatt, the Queensland Synod’s director of mission strategy, offers his perspective. We talk so much these ...

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