Author Archives: Matt Stanford

Matt Stanford

Matt is just a guy who’s passionate about his faith, and the community of church. He’s 32, husband of Jacqui and dad for Toby, and is part of Riverside Church in Montmorency, Melbourne. No formal theological training, but full of opinions/thoughts/feelings. Sadly afflicted with Richmond supportership since 1982. It’s been a long time.

collective language

Prompted by my LifeGroup: what does the language of a corporate experience of God look like?
I think it’s quite a poorly developed area of communication for us.
In my experience, when we talk about what God’s doing, we talk about it from a first-person perspective: “something I’ve learned this week…”, “God told me…”, “my experience this [...]

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