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.
Andrew Heard has a new book out, Growth and Change. Over the coming weeks we will be posting some conversations that Jo and Scott had[...]
Mission is one of those things that seems to get dropped off the agenda when churches start for the year. We talk with Marcus Druitt[...]
God has made us all different. We need to keep this mind when we do the whole thing of feedback: experience, personality, gender, cultural background[...]
Feedback needs to be something that is a regular thing, but it also needs some formal rhythms of review. Importance of regular reviews for staff[...]
It's one thing getting feedback, but what about receiving and looking for feedback. We continue our series on feedback. In this episode we look at[...]
Feedback is an essential part of developing people in ministry. We need to know how to do it well. Here are some tips for giving[...]
Feedback is such an important part of the culture of a growing church. Why don't we do it? Recently, we received some feedback in the[...]
We continue our exploration into how AI can help us in ministry. In this episode we go beyond CHATGPT to look at marketing, writing and[...]
AI has become an phenomena in the world. We're exploring how something like CHATGPT can be useful for ministry and where it cannot be substituted[...]
Term 1 is on the way. What do I need to think about? Reminding people of the vision. Dripping vision into all things we do.[...]
Dr Patricia Weerakoon discusses why our churches need to have clarity about gender, orientation and identity from pastoral, theological and medical perspectives. There has[...]
Rory Shiner would love to make “Christianity weird again” and so has written a book on the cross. His third book in his backwards trilogy,[...]