Mikey Lynch (born 1980
) is an Australian evangelist and blogger. He serves as Campus Director of the Fellowship of Christians at the
University of Tasmania, a group associated with the
Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Prior to this he was senior pastor of Crossroads Presbyterian Church in Hobart.
["How a ‘micro-revival’ gave Mikey Lynch a big vision"]
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Along with
Al Stewart
Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a Scottish born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock so ...
and Andrew Heard, Lynch is a director of the Geneva Push, an Australian
church planting network.
Commenting on the inverted red crosses of the ''
Dark Mofo Winter Festival'' public art installation, Lynch was reported as observing that "My immediate reaction was a bit of an eye roll — here we go, a shock jock statement that gets Christians grumpy. It's a religious symbol and so for some people it is precious, so of course, people are going to find that hurtful. For Christians, the cross is a symbol of shame and it's about God taking on shame for the salvation of the word, so there's a weird irony in getting offended by a symbol which in itself is offensive."
Personal life
Lynch is married with three children.
He studied at
Scotch College, Melbourne before obtaining a
Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania.
Directors and Key Staff
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Books
* ''The Good Life in the Last Days'' ( Matthias Media, 2018)
*''The Vine Movement'' (Matthias Media, 2023)
References
External links
Genva Push: Christian reflections blog
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Living people
People from Hobart
Australian Presbyterians
University of Tasmania alumni
People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
1980 births