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    <title>sydneyanglicans.net: missionthinking</title>
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      <title>Will you build up or break down?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/will_you_build_up_or_break_down</link>       <description>What would you say? It’s a decision that has to be made – will I build or will I break? – will I minister or will I maim?</description>
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      <content:encoded>What would you say? It’s a decision that has to be made – will I build or will I break? – will I minister or will I maim?</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-02-01T19:31:52+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Jim Ramsay)</author>
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      <title>The Essential Jesus joins your Bible study</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/the_essential_jesus_joins_your_bible_study</link>       <description>After a year of information about Connect09, people now get it. What we need in 2009 are the resources to help people do it &#45; beginning with a weekly Bible study connecting us with the Essential Jesus.</description>
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      <content:encoded>After a year of information about Connect09, people now get it. What we need in 2009 are the resources to help people do it &#45; beginning with a weekly Bible study connecting us with the Essential Jesus.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-01-25T23:02:16+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Andrew Nixon)</author>
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      <title>Will I pay the price?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/questions_will_i_pay_the_price</link>       <description>There are real opportunity costs involved in being truly Christian. Many issues can bite deep into our lives. The question is will I pay the price?</description>
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      <content:encoded>There are real opportunity costs involved in being truly Christian. Many issues can bite deep into our lives. The question is will I pay the price?</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-01-25T23:00:13+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Jim Ramsay)</author>
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      <title>Is your house in order?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/questions_is_your_house_in_order</link>       <description>“I hope my parents die before I do!” Startling words from someone who did not want their mum and dad to find out what they had done much earlier in life. Others, no doubt, feel the same way concerning their parents, or spouses, or their children.</description>
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      <content:encoded>“I hope my parents die before I do!” Startling words from someone who did not want their mum and dad to find out what they had done much earlier in life. Others, no doubt, feel the same way concerning their parents, or spouses, or their children.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-01-18T23:01:57+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Jim Ramsay)</author>
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      <title>There&#8217;s probably no God</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/theres_probably_no_god</link>       <description>While advertisements on London buses say: ‘There’s probably no God.  Now stop worrying and enjoy your life,’ the carefree sentiment doesn&apos;t ring true in the day&#45;to&#45;day life.</description>
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      <dc:subject>articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded>While advertisements on London buses say: ‘There’s probably no God.  Now stop worrying and enjoy your life,’ the carefree sentiment doesn&apos;t ring true in the day&#45;to&#45;day life.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-01-12T23:01:51+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Narelle  Jarrett)</author>
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      <title>What is your neighbour&#8217;s religion?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/questions_what_is_your_neighbours_religion</link>       <description>So where do you live? Unless you’re on a 1,000 hectare farm my guess is that just outside your front door you can see other doors behind which a bunch of people live. What’s their religion? Start guessing now.</description>
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      <content:encoded>So where do you live? Unless you’re on a 1,000 hectare farm my guess is that just outside your front door you can see other doors behind which a bunch of people live. What’s their religion? Start guessing now.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-01-11T23:01:17+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Jim Ramsay)</author>
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      <title>Why are you still a Christian?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/questions_why_are_you_still_a_christian</link>       <description>I am glad that the good old fashioned ‘Giving your testimony’ kind of talk has died out. I became a believer back in the late 1950&apos;s! My question is, “Why are you still a Christian?”</description>
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      <content:encoded>I am glad that the good old fashioned ‘Giving your testimony’ kind of talk has died out. I became a believer back in the late 1950&apos;s! My question is, “Why are you still a Christian?”</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-01-04T23:01:17+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Jim Ramsay)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/questions_why_are_you_still_a_christian/</guid>
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      <title>Youth: most active, least committed</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/youth_most_active_least_committed</link>       <description>Just when I thought the National Church Life Survey team had gone quiet, along comes another outstanding report that raises two serious concerns for Sydney Anglicans seeking to connect to youth.</description>
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      <dc:subject>articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded>Just when I thought the National Church Life Survey team had gone quiet, along comes another outstanding report that raises two serious concerns for Sydney Anglicans seeking to connect to youth.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-12-28T23:01:19+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Zac Veron)</author>
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      <title>An unexpected connection</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/an_unexpected_connection</link>       <description>After non&#45;stop mobile calls for the first few days, my wife put her foot down. The phone was confiscated. No more Connect09 until further notice! Which makes what happened next all the more extraordinary.</description>
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      <dc:subject>columns, Connect09 tag</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded>After non&#45;stop mobile calls for the first few days, my wife put her foot down. The phone was confiscated. No more Connect09 until further notice! Which makes what happened next all the more extraordinary.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-12-21T23:01:09+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Andrew Nixon)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/an_unexpected_connection/</guid>
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      <title>Servants of the Gospel need support</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/servants_of_the_gospel_need_support</link>       <description>In the very beginning God recognised that reflecting his image and filling and governing the earth required more than one person.</description>
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      <dc:subject>articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded>In the very beginning God recognised that reflecting his image and filling and governing the earth required more than one person.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-12-19T12:22:31+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Narelle  Jarrett)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/servants_of_the_gospel_need_support/</guid>
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      <title>Whose mission?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/whose_mission</link>       <description>With Connect09 well and truly under way, mission is a topic that many people are discussing. One question is “who should mission?”</description>
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      <dc:subject>columns</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded>With Connect09 well and truly under way, mission is a topic that many people are discussing. One question is “who should mission?”</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-12-14T23:01:26+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Archie Poulos)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/whose_mission/</guid>
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      <title>101 Gospel jobs</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/101_gospel_jobs</link>       <description>Over the course of the last two years I have come to realise that your average Christian has a very limited understanding of the different Gospel Ministry jobs that exist.</description>
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      <dc:subject>articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded>Over the course of the last two years I have come to realise that your average Christian has a very limited understanding of the different Gospel Ministry jobs that exist.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-12-07T23:01:39+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Ben Pfahlert)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/101_gospel_jobs/</guid>
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      <title>Are you a Gospel worker?</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/are_you_a_gospel_worker</link>       <description>Mark Driscoll’s ‘Prophet, Priest and King’ allegory has helpfully pushed us to recognise that God has not made a one&#45;size&#45;fits&#45;all role for people passionate about Word ministry in Sydney.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Mark Driscoll’s ‘Prophet, Priest and King’ allegory has helpfully pushed us to recognise that God has not made a one&#45;size&#45;fits&#45;all role for people passionate about Word ministry in Sydney.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-11-30T23:01:43+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Jodie McNeill)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/are_you_a_gospel_worker/</guid>
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      <title>A digital solution to a physical problem</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/the_porn_again_christian</link>       <description>Mark Driscoll is using the Internet to attack a problem that the Internet is responsible for seriously aggravating &#45; pornography. He has begun by making his new book on the subject as free online as the x&#45;rated material at the centre of the problem.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Mark Driscoll is using the Internet to attack a problem that the Internet is responsible for seriously aggravating &#45; pornography. He has begun by making his new book on the subject as free online as the x&#45;rated material at the centre of the problem.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-11-23T23:01:17+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Andrew Lim)</author>
   <guid>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/the_porn_again_christian/</guid>
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      <title>Same tracks, new destination</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/missionthinking/everything_changes_nothing_changes</link>       <description>Farewell to Sydney and ministry in the diocese. Au revoir to St. Paul&apos;s Chatswood. Hello Canberra and Goulburn...</description>
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      <content:encoded>Farewell to Sydney and ministry in the diocese. Au revoir to St. Paul&apos;s Chatswood. Hello Canberra and Goulburn...</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-11-16T23:01:22+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Stuart P. Robinson)</author>
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