The One Thing

We've just released our latest podcast episode of The One Thing with Al Stewart, looking at how we can preach Easter well - particularly during this season online as churches adapt to the evolving COVID environment.

If Australia was given 48 hours before going into a deeper lock-down like New Zealand, would your church be ready? What are the essential preparations to make? Set up your church to serve your people and the community in a full lock-down scenario.

How much should you cut church budget by? What do the new government initiatives mean for your church? What principles of financial management apply right now? A deeply practical episode on church finances during Coronavirus.

At this stage, better than planning 6 months in advance is to ‘walk like a snail’. Craig Tucker shares his wisdom on the current crisis.

Well done to all the churches who moved to online church for the first time on Sunday. As a complement to (https://bit.ly/2UtPG5L), Derek and Scott reflect on best practice online church. Use this episode to reflect on your own church's online church. SHOWNOTES Sundays Online – First Week Reflections Coronavirus and the Church

Tune in for the 100th episode of The One Thing: Is the Tide Rising on Christianity in Australia.

In today's episode, Derek Hanna talks to Scott Sanders about the importance of building confidence in ministry and in faith in God.

In today's episode, Dan and Teresa Lee from MBM Rooty Hill talk to Scott Sanders about how they do marriage while doing ministry together.

Christine Jolly from Australia Fellowship of Evangelical Students will be talking to Scott and Derek about how to communicate to your supporters well.

In today's episode, Scott and Derek talks to EV Church's Grahame Fuller about the essentials steps to maturing disciples for Christ.

Join Scott and Derek as they talk to Paul Sheely and Neil Auranaune from Fresh Start Presbyterian Church. On today's episode, we will be hearing about Neil's journey in faith and apprenticeship, and Paul's two year plan for his apprentice.

Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna heads down to G8 Conference. They will be talking to Scott Curtis and his ministry apprentice Zac Metcalfe from Hunter Bible Church about creating a culture of traineeships.

On this week's episode, Scott and Derek head down to Tasmania to talk to St. John's Presbyterian's Senior Minister, Al Bain from in Hobart, about what it's like to lead a church on the edge of Australia.

Scott and Derek talk Geneva Push's Recruit and Assessment Coordinator, Madeleine Galea talks about how to do church food well.

On today's episode, Grahame Fuller joins Scott and Derek on The One Thing podcast again to talk about whether your church reflect your community.

Grahame Fuller from EV Church joins Derek Hanna and Scott Sanders to talk about what needs to be done when working with volunteer leaders and how do you do it well.

Join futurist and grumpy old man Derek Hanna as he talks about the sorts of spiritual maturity that technology cannot counterfeit.

Over the last ten years church planting has grown in prominence in Australia, with several local and imported networks starting up to assist the creation of new congregations across the country – so what lessons can be learned from the past decade?

Student Ministries have always been a fertile ground for evangelism and training of Christians throughout the world. One of the challenges for the local church can be how they can support this ministry, and how they can encourage that ministry to support and value the local church.

There’s no doubting that those born in the shadow of the new millennium have a particular way of seeing the world – never knowing a time without digital technology and raised in an air of international optimism have to count for something! So how do you best reach them with a message that is already thousands of years old?

Mission isn’t just ensuring your congregation are all ready to share the Gospel, but that every event is organised so that it adds to your Gospel impact.

In this episode Al discusses with Derek Hanna what the Bible would call ‘healthy masculinity’ and the basis for promoting a particular viewpoint of manhood today.

Derek Hanna speaks to Christian speaker and author Al Stewart on putting to death that sort of behaviour which the world rightly criticises, but also remembering that Christians take their source of manhood from a definitive source.

Derek Hanna speaks to Paul Webb, church planter and Anglican minister from Chester Hill, who has pioneered a range of techniques for both evangelising and maturing members of a congregation where there is no clear cultural ‘majority’.