Gordon Cheng
Gordon works as a writer and editor at CMS Australia. His home church is St Paul's Carlingford. Gordon is the author of Christian Living for Starters, Encouragement, In the Sight of God, Jesus for Sceptics, and several Bible study guides and courses, all published by Matthias Media.
Let’s abolish lay ministry
- Gordon Cheng •
- 1 July 2007
There has been much talk of the difference between ‘professional’ ministry and ‘lay ministry’. But are such distinctions helpful? Gordon has a better suggestion. A slightly arbitrary definition of ‘lay ministry’ is ‘unpaid ministry in the church performed by nonprofessionals’. The idea of ‘laity’ comes from the Greek ‘laos’, meaning
Letters to the editor: A Christian writes
- Gordon Cheng •
- 1 December 2006
Why write? I write letters to the editor for a particularly idiosyncratic reason. About five-and-a-half years ago, my middle daughter was born and, unlike my eldest (who once slept uninterrupted for 13 hours), Ruby woke like clockwork at 4 in the morning. I was the one who scored the early
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