What does complementarian ministry look like in practice in a parachurch setting? To explore just that, we chat to Carl Matthai and Alison Napier who are part of the team at Campus Bible Study (CBS) at the University of New South Wales. Carl heads up the ministry and Alison joined the team in 2015 to especially help with ministry among overseas students.
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Complementarianism and Campus Ministry: An interview with Carl Matthei and Alison Napier
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Reading or speaking the Bible? – Scott Newling
Words are the lifeblood of relationships. When a person speaks to another, the speaker reveals something of themselves to the hearer; when the hearers listens, they come to know the speaker better. Of course, that depends in part on the truthfulness of the speaker and the attentiveness of the listener, but we get the point: words communicate and bring into relationship.
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Gifted beyond measure
At the primary school our kids attended, there was a class for gifted children. It was called the ‘opportunity class’. To get into the opportunity class, the kids had to do a test. They couldn’t study for the test; it was designed to measure raw giftedness rather than knowledge or exam technique. Well… that was the official line. In reality, everyone had worked out how to rig it: if you wanted your kid to stand a chance against the other kids, you had to pay for private tutoring. So it was not really a class for ‘gifted children’, it was a class for ‘children with some talent who also have ambitious parents’. Now the teachers at the school were fantastic; they loved teaching the children and put great effort into teaching all of their classes, gifted and otherwise. But privately, I’m pretty sure many of the teachers were a little bit jaded about the whole ‘opportunity class’ selection process.
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