Gary Lockyer was the senior pastor at Lilydale Baptist (1988-2002). This is an full version of his comment posted today providing background to the turmoil at his former church. Steve, I was the Senior Pastor of the Lilydale Baptist Church for 14 years. It had already grown out of its ancient (1881?) but very small [...]
Category Archives: Evangelicalism
Christianity surges in Indonesia
11 May, 2010 – 10:50 PM
Time Magazine reports: A religious revolution is transforming Indonesia. Part of the spiritual blossoming entails Muslims embracing a more conservative form of faith, mirroring global trends that have meant a proliferation of headscarves and beards in modern Islamic capitals. More surprising, though, is the boom in Christianity — officially Indonesia’s second largest faith and a [...]
A new kind of gospel?
4 August, 2008 – 9:33 PM
Dynamic movements are committed to a cause. But what if you’re not sure what that cause is any more? Tim Keller writes: A generation ago, it would have been hard to imagine evangelicals unable to agree on what the simple gospel is: 1) God made you and you must have a relationship with him, 2) [...]
Insight into an emerging church planting movement
18 April, 2008 – 4:06 AM
Here’s a podcast from Mark Driscoll. It will give you an insight into an emerging church planting movement and its founder. While you’re there check out Mark Driscoll on why he has distanced himself from the non-Evangelical wing of the Emerging Church. But to really understand the true power of Mark’s ministry listen to this [...]
The College “Y”
27 June, 2007 – 7:32 PM
College YMCA leaders birth the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886 Whenever I’m in London I pick up a stack of books I’ve ordered online in the UK. I remember a friend checking out my orders and telling me, “You buy the weirdest books”. Well, here’s another weird book: The College “Y”: Student Religion [...]
Students who changed the world
18 August, 2006 – 9:49 PM
Following up on my Missionaries to Marxists: the Rise and Fall of SCM, here’s an article by one of the great historians of revival movements, Dr J Edwin Orr. Read it and ask yourself, “Why can’t this happen again?” Can you imagine… one third of a university’s student body coming to Christ in a single [...]
Missionaries to Marxists
15 August, 2006 – 12:46 AM
Today I’m releasing the latest in a series of case studies in the lifecycle of a movement: SCM – Missionaries to Marxists We’ll be looking at the final stage of the lifecycle: death. The case study I’ve chosen is especially instructive for those on left wing of the Emerging Church, described by Ed Stetzer as [...]
Tim Keller ruins debate and ruins me
10 August, 2006 – 9:42 PM
We’re in trouble. Tim Keller has done an outstanding job of clearing up the whole justice vs evangelism thing. Drop in on the Reform and Resurge conference and download theses audio files: Preaching the Gospel Doing Justice Or subscribe to the Resurgence podcast. You’re after sessions 7 & 8. Take the time to listen and [...]
Why nobody likes Sydney Anglicans
9 June, 2006 – 9:34 PM
One of the great things about being a Collingwood supporter is that the rest of Australia hates us. One of the great things about being a Mac user is that the rest of the world is PC. The same with movements. No one else likes them. Not even other Christians. Until they settle down and [...]
Exploding Sydney Anglicans
6 April, 2006 – 7:44 PM
The Sydney Anglican—mostly evangelical—diocese is breaking records: 47 new clergy recently ordained. Onward Anglican soldiers The class of 2006 is the largest group ordained as ministers in the Anglican Church in Australia. Many of them have been appointed to set up new congregations affiliated with existing parishes. Watch out if the Sydney Anglicans follow the [...]
