Season 1. Episode 18: What I Learned Through Church Conflict. An Interview with Rhianon Rae
Season 1, Episode 18. What I Learned Through Church Conflict: An Interview with Rhianon Rae
We are interviewing all of our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Rhianon Rae, who shares beautifully about her difficulty with vulnerability throughout her life and what God has taught her about his faithfulness and peace through seasons of doubt and church conflict as a pastors wife.
Thanks for listening to Season 1, Episode 18 of The After Dinner Mint, a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. Thanks for sharing your day with us!
We are interviewing all of our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Rhianon Rae, who shares beautifully about her difficulty with vulnerability throughout her life and what God has taught her about his faithfulness and peace through seasons of doubt and church conflict as a pastors wife.
In today’s episode, we explore:
The joys of cricket, netball, and reading the Bible one to one with other women.
Growing up in a Christian family on a farm in the country and becoming a Christian as a child.
Struggling with doubts as an teenager and young adult, and the role Christian Union had in her life as they were not afraid of the big questions.
Walking through a season of church conflict as a pastor’s wife and her fears of the damage to her reputation and relationships, her desire to avoid conflict, and what God taught her about forgiveness, his faithfulness and peace, and the value of having trusted people outside of your own ministry context to walk alongside you.
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Mentioned in this episode
Ministry Training Strategy (MTS) Apprenticeship
The Way of Wisdom: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs by Tim Keller
Interview with Amy Stopher, also one of our writers and on staff at Providence City Church: What I Learned When I Burned Out in Ministry
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Romans 5:1-5)
The women who encourage Rhianon: Rosemary Thorburn and Rachel Thyer
About Rhianon
Rhianon is married to Sam and spends much of her time loving and looking after their three (soon to be four) children. In God’s kindness, she first heard the gospel from her parents, and has since trained in Christian ministry with UWA Christian Union and Trinity Theological College. In this season, she enjoys leading a Bible study, coffee dates with friends, watching cricket, and dreaming of the day she can play netball again.