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    <description>Matt is the Senior Pastor of Citywide Baptist Church in Hobart, Tasmania. He is steering his church through the crisis that was brought to a head by COVID-19 and seeking to understand what it means not to simply to recover, but rather to move forward in a new mode. 

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        <![CDATA[ lot of us have been busy adjusting to a new reality and as such have been simply focussed on survival. 

There is a danger that this remarkable time of change, could simply end up as an interlude as peopel go back to life as normal... and the opportunity for lasting change might be lost.

Matt is hoping to take some time each week to look at the big picture of what God is doing and where he is taking us in an effort to lead his church forwards.

To start with, Matt is talking about how two ideas from French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, might help give a useful framework to be thinking about what forward looks like.]]>
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There is a danger that this remarkable time of change, could simply end up as an interlude as peopel go back to life as normal... and the opportunity for lasting change might be lost.

Matt is hoping to take some time each week to look at the big picture of what God is doing and where he is taking us in an effort to lead his church forwards.

To start with, Matt is talking about how two ideas from French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, might help give a useful framework to be thinking about what forward looks like.]]>
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There is a danger that this remarkable time of change, could simply end up as an interlude as peopel go back to life as normal... and the opportunity for lasting change might be lost.

Matt is hoping to take some time each week to look at the big picture of what God is doing and where he is taking us in an effort to lead his church forwards.

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