Phillip Jensen

Phillip Jensen is an Australian cleric of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and the former Dean of St. Andrew’s Cathedral. He founded the Australian Christian publishing house Matthais Media. He founded the Christian magazine The Briefing in 1988. He authored the Gospel tract The Two Ways of Living. He also created the Ministry Training Strategy (MTS).
He was chairman of the Katoomba Youth Convention (KYC) (1974-1991) & Convention Council (1983-91).

Phillip spent his early years living at Bellevue Hill, a suburb of Sydney. His first public statement of faith came at a Billy Graham crusade in 1959.

From 1967-70 he studied theology at Moore Theological College.
He married his wife Helen in 1969.
On graduation he worked at St. Matthew’s Manley and at the Department of Evangelism (now Evangelism and New Churches).

In 1975 he became Anglican chaplain to the University of New South Wales (UNSW)
In 1977 or8 he became rector of St. Matthias’ Centennial Park.

His university ministry was based around expository preaching and ‘walk-up evangelism’. There were many conversions and large student gatherings at UNSW. The congregation at St. Matthias grew from 20-30 in 1977 to over a 1,000 by the mid 1990s.
His work at UNSW included the creation of the Ministry Training Strategy (MTS) which trained young people in practical ministry skills, preparing them for church ministry, ordained or otherwise.
After over 30 years he resigned as Chaplain for the UNSW in 2005.

From 1974-91 he led the reinvigoration of the Katoomba Christian Convention - an interdenominational ministry providing evangelical Biblical preaching to Christians. ( See notes on ’ Katoomba Christian Convention’)

He promoted lay administration of the Lord’s Supper and is an opponent of the ordination of women.

In 2003 he was appointed Dean of Sydney’s St. Andrews Cathedral and Director of the Sydney Diocesan Ministry Training and Development (MT&D)(2003-12). During his time there he changed many things. Peter Phillips, the Tallis Scholars’ director, accused him of ‘vandalising’ Anglican culture,
( Read 3rd para on ‘Views’)
In 2014 he announced he was resigning as Dean at the end of the year.

Phillip commenced work on Two Ways Ministries* (TWM) at Moore Theological College. TWM seeks to serve people by proclaiming the death and resurrection of Jesus through teaching people the Bible

Phillip currently accepts invitations to preach and to speak at inter/national conferences.

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twowayministries