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

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Against Religion

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 July 2007

They say that everyone has a book inside them, and fortunately, in most cases, it stays there.Some of us have more than one.I seem to have half a library lurking around in there somewhere. My adrenal gland, for example, wants to write a sporting autobiography called Seeing Red and White:

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Misapplying the Word

  • 1 July 2007

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Wilberforce’s world-changing home group

  • Roslyn Phillips
  • 1 July 2007

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Nature

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 July 2007

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Focus on the meat

  • Gordon Cheng
  • 1 July 2007

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An idiot’s guide to life

  • Marty Sweeney
  • 1 July 2007

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Walking around on the moon: The Selected Works of Donald Robinson

  • Peter Bolt
  • 1 July 2007

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Trusting out loud: three books on prayer

  • 1 July 2007

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The Message of Prayer

  • Luke Tattersall
  • 1 July 2007

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