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PASTORING OUR CITIES WITH INFLUENCE

Rod Denton in Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership, Mission, Resources

We don’t go to church, we are the church. We don’t only meet together on a Sunday, but we are the body of Jesus living lives of influence as pastors in our cities every moment of every day. And because we are people of influence, we are leaders, blessed to be a blessing wherever we go.

So much did this truth impress itself on me, that after preaching a sermon on how Christians are members of the body of Christ in the world in which they live and how each member has been empowered by the Holy Spirit, I took an unusual step. I asked the congregation to stand and …

LIVE INTENTIONALLY………….. How to go from a nobody to a somebody so that you won’t just be an anybody

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring, Mission, Resources

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In 1980, I unexpectedly left the business world in Adelaide to join the pastoral team at Blackburn Baptist Church in Melbourne as pastor for youth and young adults. Nine years later, I was to face another radical change.
Sue and I found ourselves packing up our family’s belongings in 8 suitcases and traveling to Los Angeles in America to study at Fuller Theological Seminary. I studied for two years in Fuller’s School of World Mission which was founded by Doctor Donald McGavran who was regarded as the most influential missiologists in the twentieth century.

Dr McGavran was a brilliant multi gifted person whose services were in great demand. However, there …

Approval by an AUDIENCE OF ONE

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring, Mission, Resources

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It wasn’t that long ago that I was walking away from the checkout area of Woolworths supermarket that I looked at the loose change that the assistant had given me and realised I had been overpaid. I was in a hurry and said to myself that “Mr Woolworths” is not going to miss the small amount that had been overpaid to me.

But my conscience got the better of me and made me go back and sort out the discrepancy with the staff member. And as I did, the staff member thanked me and said that not many people do this and asked why I did it. The words that …

DEFINING MOMENTS…..that give perspective to God’s unfolding purposes for our lives.

Rod Denton in Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring, Mission, Resources

WRITTEN WITH MUCH GRATITUDE TO MY LORD IN MY EIGHTIETH YEAR

I have grown to understand that one of the most important qualities a leader can possess is that of perspective which I define as seeing my life through the sovereign eyes of God. This is critical for the very reason Isaiah wrote,

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

A life of perspective is made up of many important experiences that can be seen as defining moments. I …