The One Thing

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE!!! Nancy Guthrie's will be coming to Australia in June 2024 to run workshops for women to understand biblical theology. Nancy is an author, speaker and podcaster who has spent her life encouraging women in the Bible. Nancy's personal experience in sitting under the Bible Why biblical theology is essential for all Christians to understand The importanc

A building is more than just a rain shelter! How people see the building and how it's used can be a great asset to gospel work. Vine Church has gone through the process of renovating and rebuilding an inner city church. Kate Stace is the Director of Ministry Operations. She shares: Thinking about the next generation as you build Why you should explain how a building project is

When you have a church building and people who don't attend your church want to use it, what questions should you think through first? Kate Stace from Vine Church is the Ministry Operations Director at Vine Church in Sydney. She shares: Why what happens in your church building matters Using your site as a mission field Priorities for what the building is used for Policy nuts a

Have you ever noticed the bits of writing at the end of the song you are singing? It should include the acronym CCLI. Christian Copyright Licensing International does not police the law in copyright, but is there to serve the church in making sure we adhere to the laws well and serve our musician brothers and sisters. Bhavani Marks visits us to talk about: What you need to pay cop

Australia has seen a number of church management platforms. Do we need another one? ChurchSuite (an online management system built in the UK) is coming to Australia this year. Scott Sanders asks Gavin and Paul from ChurchSuite about how their platform will benefit Australian churches: Why putting 'people before programs' is so important. How the platform is designed for pe

Vine Church uses name tags, Hunter Bible Church does not. In this episode Toby Neal (Vine Church) and Dave Moore (Hunter Bible Church) face off in a debate about whether name tags are helpful in church. Arguments for: Community: They can help people connect as addressing people by name helps with relational interactions Follow up: Having a check in process helps to get new peopl

Are Christian books still a powerful tool for evangelism? Rory Baxter has been publishing books as cheap as he can, to get them into the hands of as many non- Christians as possible. Here's his take on how they've been effective in churches.  Scott and Rory talk about: Rory's own story about learning the gospel with dyslexia What is it about books

Andrew Heard has a new book out, Growth and Change. Over the coming weeks we'll be posting conversations that Jo and Scott had with Andrew about the book and its background on the Reach Australia Podcast (our longform podcast). In this episode of The One Thing, Jo and Scott reflect on their conversation with Andrew. Here are some of the things that they loved: He works throug

St Faith's Anglican Church in Sydney's Northern Beaches has made significant changes to how they think about mission as they pray to see more people saved. We talk with Marcus Druitt from the church about what he has found to be the effective elements of evangelistic courses. In this episode we discuss: The important contexts of an evangelistic course, including thinking

God has made us all different. We need to keep this mind when we do the whole thing of feedback: experience, personality, gender, cultural background and their role. We need to be: Thinking about the relationships around us and getting to know the people we need to give feedback to. Caring personally and challenging radically leads to good feedback. Making sure that people know th