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January 2010

Steve Cree
Fellow workers or office bearers? Thinking missionally about church structures
Paul Grimmond
The Geneva Push
Guan Un
Diary of a ministry apprentice (Part 2): March 2008
Phillip Jensen
Freedom to do what you don’t like
Marty Sweeney
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Jocelyn Williams
Bible brief: Leviticus

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It is a little-known fact that Calvin and the Genevan Consistory sent hundreds of trained missionaries into France and the rest of the Europe to preach the gospel and plant new congregations of believers. In this interview, The Briefing talks to Al Stewart about the ongoing importance of church planting in light of Al's work with Evangelism Ministries in Sydney and The Geneva Push, a new Australia-wide church-planting network whose name is derived from the work of Calvin and his colleagues.

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Freedom to do what you don’t like

Phillip Jensen / 1st January 2010

Phillip Jensen teases out the true nature of Christian freedom.

There are two kinds of freedom. Christian freedom is the freedom to be a servant of others (Gal 5:13)—the freedom to do what I don't like. But the freedom that allows me to do whatever I want is not Christian freedom; it is license and sometimes licentiousness. When in the name of Christian liberty, I am free to do what I wanted to do anyway, a deep suspicion enters my mind; it is not that God wants to deny me any pleasure, but ...