Welcome to Living in Christ.

Recently while in Singapore speaking at a church camp I was encouraged to consider setting up a blog to share ideas on Christian spiritual life with a wider audience. This is the result.

For forty years I've had a passion to know and walk with Christ and to help others do so as well. After teaching at university for eight years (in the Department of Soil Science at Lincoln University, New Zealand) I served as a pastor first in Christchurch, New Zealand and then in Brisbane, Australia. In 1995 I became founding Principal of Grace Theological College, a non-denominational evangelical and Reformed theological college in Auckland, New Zealand. After thirteen happy and fruitful years there I was called back to pastoral ministry in Wyndham, a small rural town in the deep south of New Zealand. My wife Nola and our second son John and I moved here in May 2008 and are enjoying a wide and varied ministry among welcoming people.

A significant part of our life here consists in deepening our understanding of what it means to live in Christ moment by moment, day by day. Over recent years I have read, thought, talked and taught a great deal about this subject, and am continuing to explore what it means in practice - especially in the context of pastoral ministry. I by no means consider myself to have "arrived" in the sense of being a master of the Christian life - who can? But there are definitely things I have learned along the way, and continue to learn. It's these I want to share with others interested in knowing Christ and entering into a fuller experience of the new life he came to give.

Most of what I write in this blog will be the fruit of reading and reflection. Little will be original, just the essence of what I believe the Spirit of Christ has been and is teaching me day by day. I do hope it is helpful, and would welcome comments and responses from those it encourages.

Andrew Young