mission
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Do You See This Person? Learning to Love Your Neighbour
Jesus asked Simon, “Do you see this woman?” It’s a question that challenges our fears, our assumptions and even the way we help. Loving our neighbours means seeing beyond their labels—and allowing them to love us too.
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When our friends become prospects
Would I still want to be your friend if you never became a Christian? A reflection on ulterior and ultimate motives, loving our neighbours, and sharing how Jesus meets us in ordinary life and pain.
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Why Hope Matters More Than Ever
Hope is the conviction that the future is good and worth moving toward. Yet many people today feel uncertain about where the world is heading. The real question is not whether we have hope, but where that hope comes from. When people build their own maps for life, they often get lost. Real hope is not invented. It is discovered.
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Serving Needs: How Ordinary Life Reveals God’s Justice and Mercy
Serving needs means closing the gap between the world as it is and the world as it would be if God’s justice and mercy were present. This article explores the simple rhythm of prayer, listening, and shared life that leads to meaningful Christian service.
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Eat With People — But Don’t Hide at the Table
Most meals don’t change anyone’s life. But Jesus changed the world while sitting at tables. In a culture drowning in loneliness, eating together is not enough. Real connection requires welcome, honesty, and courage. Don’t hide behind distraction or polite conversation. Be present. Be truthful. See people — and let yourself be seen.
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Listening as Mercy: Why It Changes Everything
We never arrive neutrally. We carry assumptions, categories, and pictures of how things should be. But Jesus calls us beyond our assumptions and into mercy. And mercy begins with listening.
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Rethinking the “Great Commission”: 5 Surprising Truths Christians Overlook
Most Christians think Jesus’ mission was simply to “go and preach.” But the real Great Commission calls us to much more—a life of apprenticeship, trust, and courage. Discover five surprising truths that reveal what Jesus actually meant when He said “Go.”
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How to Change the World
When Paul entered Ephesus, he didn’t bring a strategy—he looked for what God was already doing. Acts 19–20 shows us how real change happens: by surrendering to Jesus, being open to the Holy Spirit, and confronting the idols of money, power, and control. That’s how churches—and cities—are transformed.
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Why Christianity is not safe
Christianity was never meant to be safe. The book of Acts shows us a revolution of love, truth, healing, and surrender. When Jesus is truly Lord, everything changes—our priorities, our relationships, our mission. The early church didn’t play religious games. They lived lives that turned the world upside down. So should we.
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The clash of Kingdoms in Acts 3-4
The early church wasn’t built on hype or strategy—it was built on the living presence of Jesus. In Acts, we see heaven and earth overlapping through ordinary people. Their lives, marked by justice, mercy, and compassion, became the new temple. This is our calling too: bold, witness in a divided world.
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You Are Sent
After rising from the dead, Jesus doesn’t offer ideas—he offers encounters. From Mary Magdalene’s grief to the disciples’ fear, everything changes when Jesus breathes new life into them. This moment is not just resurrection, but re-creation. You are now part of his mission. You are not alone. You are sent.
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Jesus’ vision for the church: Hybels and Eldredge got it wrong… Bono got it right.
Because of our cultural history, most of us have an inadequate picture of the profound nature of what Jesus' vision for the church is. I certainly did for much of my life. The truth is that the once a week Sunday service, that most of us would call "church," is a far cry from Jesus' vision.
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started…. #TSEliot
T.S. Eliot penned the words of the title of this reflection as part of his poem, “The Little Gidding.” The words have been running around my head lately because it they capture the trajectory of our next twelve months. In 1992 my journey in ministry really started with a journey to the top of Mt. Wellington in Hobart. I was in the city on placement after finishing Fusion’s six month bible college intensive. A friend had challenged me to consider the possibility of “digging in” in Hobart and committing to Fusion’s work for the long haul. I didn’t want to. I was scared. I knew I didn’t have the answers. So…
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9 things you need to know about Jesus’ vision for the church. Hybels and Eldredge got it wrong. Bono got it right.
Mega church pastor Bill Hybels claims that: “The hope of the world is not government, academia, business, but the church because it is to the church that God has entrusted the message of salvation, which truly changes people’s lives and hearts.” Bill believes the most important thing about the church is our message. Bill is wrong. The message is important… but it is not the most important thing about the church, or the most important gift the church has for the world. Bill is not alone though… Most of us have an inadequate picture of the profound nature of what the church is meant to be. I certainly did. For 20…
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Ordination, while indeed symbolic, truly does matter, at least to me.
It has been an unusually long time since I wrote a Faith Reflection. This has largely been because I have been deeply engaged with what I have been doing over the last few weeks, but also because it has taken a bit of processing to come to terms with it. You see, in addition to running our first one week Foundations course at the church and leading the church to run three Open Crowd festivals simultaneously across the city, and engaging with an annual planning retreat, I got ordained. Since I started as a Pastor three years ago, I knew ordination was going to be something that needed to happen.…
