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 …

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 …