When the Spirit moves… HE MOVES!
At the 2018 LEAD Conference, Markus Schonberger spoke about making room for the Holy Spirit to move during church services. He said, “At times it gets …
Leadership
Getting to know the new national leader
On 20th February 2019, the Assembly Council together with the Mission Council nominated Charles Hewlett to the position of national leader of the Bapti…
Building for the future
Frank and Zoe Grant led Ōpōtiki Baptist Church, a once dwindling congregation in small-town Eastern Bay of Plenty, on a journey to become a church brim…
Whatever happened to the team?
Western Christianity, including in New Zealand, is facing a crisis in the face of ever-growing secularism. Trevor Geddes believes that, as for any team…
The strength of relationships
At the 2018 Hui, in his last official address as National Leader, Craig Vernall reflected on the importance of relational intelligence in our movement …
Training new missional leaders
Jesus’ main task for the three years of his ministry was training leaders for a new movement, and training leaders remains a crucial task for all churc…
PressingOn… together
Rick Pierce tells us about a growing initiative called PressingOn, which combines the teaching resources and networking power of seven Baptist churches…
Baptist distinctives
What makes Baptists Baptist? John Tucker traces the Baptist vision of church and its value for ministry and mission today. Some years ago, a Church…
Confessions of a Pastor
It’s a funny old life being a pastor in my context. I’m in a denomination that has a historical strength about the value of congregational governance, …
10 things I wish I’d known about cults
Cults—do you think these were a phenomenon that died out decades ago and only appealed to easily-led people? That’s what Steve Worsley used to think be…