Mike Leite

Mike is currently serving at Engadine Anglican Church, pastoring and preaching at a morning congregation and looking after the youth ministry. He loves to help people grow in their knowledge and love for Christ. He is married to Emily and together they have four children. If he gets the chance, Mike enjoys going for a surf or taking his car for a drive.

Your gut is wrong

  • Mike Leite
  • 5 December 2018

When we teach on some passages, such as God’s good design for human sexuality and the role of men and women, our initial gut reaction is often anything but positive.

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Church leaders: realistic idealists

  • Mike Leite
  • 10 September 2018

If we are people of God’s word, and if all Scripture is profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that God’s people are equipped to do good work, then surely the leader is driven by biblical ideals and high expectations.

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Who rules: The lay or the clergy?

  • Mike Leite
  • 3 January 2018

Since the beginning of the church there has been unhealthy tension between the shepherd and the sheep, the appointed leaders and those they lead.

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Meet the new ‘twicer’: The irregular regular

  • Mike Leite
  • 26 June 2017

The average churchgoer attends church just twice a month. I hope you’ll agree that this is rather saddening! Here are three biblical truths to help us break the twicer habit.

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I can’t wait for heaven… and that’s the problem

  • Mike Leite
  • 28 November 2016

Are we looking forward to the new creation, or are we captivated by the good gifts that God has given us now?

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Thank God that we stand perfectly obedient before him!

  • Mike Leite
  • 10 October 2016

Now the first reaction to the title of this piece might be “What! How can anyone say they stand perfectly obedient before God?” On one level, this is the right reaction. How can anyone claim such a thing, knowing the place of sin in the human heart?

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Our role in the Book of Acts

  • Mike Leite
  • 8 August 2016

At first glance, it seems like the Book of Acts ends with an anticlimax. But, as Mike Leite reminds us, that’s because the Book of Acts is not yet finished.

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Don’t forget the punchline!

  • Mike Leite
  • 27 May 2016

Telling others around us that we’re Christian or that we go to church is enough, right? Mike Leite suggests that if so, we are forgetting something very important.

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A matter of priority

  • Mike Leite
  • 25 March 2016

Mike Leite argues for the importance of ‘priority’ and how it relates to the ministry of the word and prayer.

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Sometimes work is just hard!

  • Mike Leite
  • 28 January 2016

Currently the Christian blogosphere is abounding in pieces about Christians and their secular work. The majority of these articles are written in order to help the Christian think deliberately about their day-to-day work and how it fits within God’s plan for their lives. While these pieces can be helpful (and others theologically questionable!), it seems to me the majority of them are overly positive about work.

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