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Welcome to the EFAC Australia Website. We are hoping this website will be used to connect members around Australia and keep everyone up to date with what's happening in their state. We have branches in each state plus the ACT and NT, so by clicking on your branch under the tab above, you can find out what is happening in your state. The site will be updated weekly with news and events.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:15 )
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EFAC National Lecture Tour |
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EFAC NATIONAL LECTURE TOUR 2010
Understanding the Bible: Ancient Text, Contemporary Reader - Bishop Glenn Davies

How do we read the Bible when it spans over 1,500 years of human composition? Which of the Old Testament's ethical teaching have any relevance for today? How do we understand the Bible to be both of human and divine authorship?
EFAC Australia presents Bishop Glenn Davies to provide guidance in dealing with these questions through the inaugural EFAC Lecture Tour. Glenn believes that a decline in ethical standards, advances in science, and a trend in ‘rereading’ texts have presented new challenges for understanding the Bible today.
“I think that many Christians have lost confidence in the Bible as God's Word revealed. I hope this lecture tour will highlight the relevance of the Bible for today and equip Christians to meet the challenges of living in this age.” EFAC Australia invites those interested to hear this important lecture. The tour visits each state and territory between June and September.
Glenn Davies has been Chairman of EFAC Australia since 2002. He is Bishop of North Sydney and writes regularly on issues facing the Anglican Church. He has previously been a lecturer at Moore College and has published works on the Books of Romans and Job. He is married to Di and they have two adult daughters and two granddaughters.
ADELAIDE
Thursday 10 June, 7.30pm AT: St Matthew’s Kensington 146 Kensington Road, Marryatville COST: Donation RSVP:
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or Rosanna, 08 8364 415 |
DARWIN
Monday 6 September, 7.30pm AT: Nungalinya College 72 Dripstone Road, Nakara FURTHER INFORMATION: Bruce Chapman,
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SYDNEY
Thursday 29 July, 7.00pm EFAC Dinner AT: St George’s, Engadine 10 Waratah St, Engadine COST: $25 RSVP: Lyn or Jenine, 02 9548 2296 |
BRISBANE
Tuesday 7 September, 7.30pm EFAC Dinner AT: Kedron-Wavell Services Club 375 Hamilton Road, Chermside COST: $40 RSVP:
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MELBOURNE
Sunday 29 August, 6.00pm AT: St Hilary’s, Kew, Evening Service 12 John St, Kew This event is now full.
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HOBART
Wednesday 8 September, 6.30pm EFAC/CMS Dinner AT: St David’s Cathedral Parish Centre 125 Macquarie Street, Hobart COST: $25.00 RSVP: David Boyd,
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GEELONG
Monday 30 August, 7.00pm EFAC/CMS Dinner AT: St John’s Highton 269 Roslyn Road (cnr South Valley Road), Highton COST: $30 RSVP here
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HOBART
Thursday 9 September, 7:30- 8:30am EFAC Breakfast AT: Cafe Zum Salamanca 27 Salamanca Place, Hobart RSVP: Luke Isham,
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CANBERRA
Friday 3 September, 6.45pm EFAC Dinner AT: Southern Cross Club, Woden 92-96 Corinna St, Woden COST: $35.00 in advance to Jonathan Holt PO Box 6231, Condor ACT 2906 or
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RSVP: Guy Matthews,
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PERTH
Wednesday 15 September, 12.30pm EFAC Lunch AT: St Alban’s Highgate 423 Beaufort Street, Highgate COST: $10 RSVP: Peter Smith,
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PERTH
Wednesday 15 September, 6.00pm EFAC D i n n e r AT: St Lawrence’s Dalkieth 56 Viking Road, Dalkieth COST: $20 RSVP: Peter Smith,
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 August 2010 15:31 )
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Gamaliel and Gafcon |
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Written by Peter Adam
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An appeal to the Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Church of Australia.
Introduction
I did not attend Gafcon. I am in sympathy with some of its passions, less so with some of its politics. This is an appeal addressed to those whose tendency is to reject or dismiss Gafcon and Anglican Mainstream, or who fail to see how God might use it. Here are four reasons why I think we should take Gafcon seriously.
1. Do not Gafcon and Anglican Mainstream show the characteristics of reform movements in the past that have later been recognized as the work of God?
These reform movements usually include the following characteristics. They are grass-roots based ecclesial communities. They critique the status quo and work outside the existing Episcopal, diocesan, and parochial structures. They have clear intentions for reform, and they set up alternative complementary energy and power structures to the existing.
Read more: Gamaliel and Gafcon
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Last Updated ( Monday, 09 August 2010 12:34 )
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The decline in the Australian Protestant Church - how we got where we are. |
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Written by Peter Corney
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The main stream Protestant churches in Australia are in serious decline and have been for some time. To give but one example: attendance at worship on an average Sunday in the Anglican Church in Melbourne has dropped from an estimated 50,000 in 1981 to 21,000 in 2006. How did we get to this point so quickly?
As accelerating secularism began to hit Australian society in the 1960’s the churches were not only unprepared they were also weakened by several trends that had been developing for some time.
One of the most significant was the trend in clergy training to become overly focused on pastoral maintenance rather than pastoral leadership, ministry skills and growth. The times called for new initiatives, new models of ministry, the ability to initiate change, new styles of worship that related to the rapidly changing culture. The training of clergy has properly always had a strong pastoral care element but three influences exaggerated this: the psychological counseling movement that developed momentum post war; the Christian Education movement; and the undermining of preaching and teaching by Liberal theology. As secularism and rapid social change hit these influences coalesced to fatally weaken pastoral leadership.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 August 2010 09:33 )
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Read more: The decline in the Australian Protestant Church - how we got where we are.
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Anglican Principles in a Changing Culture |
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Written by Peter Corney
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(This article originally appeared in Essentials: The Journal of EFAC* it has recently been revised 11/09)
We are living in a time of enormous and rapid change at every level of our lives. Hugh Mackay in his book Re-inventing Australia describes it as the Age of Redefinition. The church is not immune to this change. The Anglican Church of Australia (ACA) is, along with the rest of society, experiencing profound changes. Experiments with new congregational models following the Fresh Expressions discussions; the new liturgically minimalist contemporary style of services in many places now; the ordination of women as Presbyters and Bishops; the strains within the Anglican Communion as a result of the willful and heterodox decisions by the American Episcopal Church and the response of splits in ECUSA and a whole new independant N. American diocese formed and the GAFCON conference saying ‘enough is enough’; ageing and declining congregations; many parishes moving below the line of viability; the growth of ethnic congregations; theological challenges from within to fundamental doctrines like the uniqueness of Christ as Savior and Lord; stable parish life threatened by urban mobility and social changes – these are just some of the more obvious changes.
What are Anglican core values?
As we attempt to evaluate, respond and adapt to the pace and extent of change it is essential that we review our foundational principles and theological roots. We need to rediscover our ‘core values’ if we are to respond constructively.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 May 2010 16:15 )
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Read more: Anglican Principles in a Changing Culture
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