Author Archives: Tony Payne

About Tony Payne

Tony is the Publishing Director at Matthias Media; editor of The Briefing; author of Islam in our Backyard, Fatherhood and numerous other Matthias Media resources; husband to Ali; father of five teenagers; and an avid consumer of books and almost any televised sport.

Against Religion

Couldn't Help Noticing, Life, Sola Panel

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They say that everyone has a book inside them, and fortunately, in most cases, it stays there.

Some of us have more than one.

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Resource Talk: The genius of training

Resource Talk, Sola Panel

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Training multiplies ministry, but takes time.

It was 1985, and I was a fresh-faced recruit working as a ministry trainee on the campus of the University of New South Wales. It wasn’t called MTS in those days—I think ‘Santa’s Helpers’ was the closest we got to a label—but MTS is what it was. We were let loose to learn by doing—to lead Bible studies, chase up student contacts, evangelize, preach, stack chairs, and generally anything and everything else. It was an extraordinary and life-shaping experience.

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