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Can anyone help me? I’m puzzling over the alleged words of the Scottish reformer, George Wishart. ‘…a priest standing at the altar saying Mass, was like a fox wagging his tail in July.’ I don’t have a clue what foxes do in July. I gather that foxes wag their tails when they’re happy, but from [...]

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Re PTC Mission 2010 again, one of the candidates compiled statistics for the week. Door Knocking Out of 878 doors we knocked on, 555 were not home (63%), 240 said no thanks (74% of those who were home), and 83 conversations were held. In other words, about 1 in 10 spoke to us. Of the [...]

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If anyone was interested in knowing more about PTC’s 2010 mission, here is a summary done by one of the candidates, Phil Court: Mission to Hume. Here is a picture, too (but I have omitted the photos showing the Sunday evening youth event). For the doorknocking and busstopping, we did the old questionnaire routinue: ‘My [...]

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I’ve had a few people leave ping backs on my blog. Not sure what that means, but I approved them all the same. One of them took me to a blog by an Associate Reformed pastor in the U.S., Tim Phillips. The photo of the Baptist Church advertising that it is ‘Yes, A Liberal Church’, [...]

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I was on college mission all last week – a week of evangelism based at Hume Presbyterian in the northern suburbs (near Melbourne airport). It was a great week, with a lot of doorknocking and speaking to people at local bustops – particularly Muslims and Italian Roman Catholics. The candidates were energetic and engaged, and [...]

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