The One Thing Podcast

Welcome to The One Thing – a podcast designed to give you one solid, practical tip for Gospel-centred ministry, every week. Scott Sanders is the Executive Director of Reach Australia, aiming to grow thousands of healthy, evangelistic and multiplying churches. Derek Hanna leads the Australian church planting network that’s been starting fresh works for the Kingdom for the past 10 years. Together they’ll tell you what you need to know about a crucial ministry topic that’s relevant to your context – all in 15 minutes. Be energised and equipped for ministry.

Latest Episodes:

The One Thing Episode 125 – The Enduring Implications of COVID On Your Church With Sam Chan

Sam discusses front loading Sunday services, implied audiences, increased eye to the outsider, shorter/longer sermons and improved leveraging of visual media.[...]

The One Thing Episode 124 – Entry Points for Evangelistic Conversations With Sam Chan

Sam Chan from CityBibleForum discusses emotional entry points, asking the second question and the re-consideration of the Western storyline.[...]

The One Thing Episode 123 – New Zealand church coming back Part 2

Part 2 of Auckland Ev's Lead Pastor, Rowan Hilsden joins the podcast today to talk about his church's experience of change and adjustment through COVID.[...]

The One Thing Episode 122 – New Zealand church coming back Part 1

Auckland Ev's Lead Pastor, Rowan Hilsden joins the podcast today to talk about his church's experience of change and adjustment through COVID.[...]

The One Thing Episode 121 – The Impact of COVID on Church-Planter Wives

Cathie Heard discusses her decision making process about busyness as Australia begins to reopen.[...]

The One Thing Episode 120 – Restarting Church’s Serving Teams (Theology & Theory)

Biblical principles behind restarting your church's teams. Special guest Scott Curtis from Hunter Bible Church, Newcastle.[...]

The One Thing Episode 119 – Restarting Church’s Serving Teams (Practical)

How are you dealing with church members’ reluctance to rejoin teams? Will you shut down or continue the newly formed livestream or care teams? How[...]

The One Thing Episode 118 – Run Better (Online) Meetings

How much disagreement should a meeting have? What are the common mistakes made by meeting facilitators? What adjustments will help your online meetings? Michael Lin[...]

The One Thing Episode 117 – 2 Churches’ Approaches To Relaunching

Rory Shiner and Murray Campbell explain how they’re slowly beginning to transition their churches back to physical gatherings, but the highlight of this episode is[...]

The One Thing Episode 116 – 7 Possible Church Trends Emerging From COVID-19

Murray Campbell (Melbourne) reflects on 7 possible church trends emerging from COVID-19.[...]

The One Thing Episode 115 – Relaunch your church post-COVID

What are the theological, strategic and circumstance-specific questions to address as you begin to plot your church’s return?[...]

The One Thing Episode #114- Does Your Church Need Online Training?

It's pretty clear right now that online training is more important than it's ever been. But let's face it - even when meetings are legal[...]