{"id":588,"date":"2025-11-30T02:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T02:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.delightingingod.com\/?page_id=588"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:02:16","slug":"michaels-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/michaels-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael’s Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Michael Groves\u2019 desire is to use the gifts God has entrusted to him to come along side churches providing short term, detailed theological teaching and encouragement for a deeper knowledge and worship of our God.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Michael heard the call of God whilst at University (UNE Armidale) in Australia when he was 20.\u00a0 <\/span>He obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Flinders University, South Australia and worked in the medical field through most of his working life.\u00a0 <\/span>Michael\u2019s first position was in Germany as a \u201cGuest Research Scientist\u201d and then on to the USA where he worked in a variety of medical companies in R&D and finally in sales and marketing.\u00a0 <\/span>His wife Shirley was a science teacher and left formal teaching to raise our two children and now teaches ESL to migrants.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Michael is an Elder Emeritus in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and is part of\u00a0 <\/span>REF (Reformed Evangelical Fellowship) and a teacher with ITEM (International Theological Education Ministries).\u00a0 <\/span>Within his home church he has focussed much of his ministry on men\u2019s discipleship and been blessed to be trained in Evangelism Explosion and Christianity Explored.\u00a0 <\/span>Outreach is a major focus of all his ministry involvement.\u00a0 <\/span>His theological training has mainly been through the local church, reading, and completing a Graduate Diploma of Divinity from Ridley Theological College, Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0 <\/span>Michael has preached at his home church, overseen the Bible study groups and men\u2019s discipleship.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Over the past 8 years (with a 2 year hiatus owing to Covid), Michael has taught week long courses in Bangladesh to Muslim converts and seekers on topics such as the Trinity, Atonement and Adoption in Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>His approach has been to combine passages from the Old with the New Testament to provide an integrated view of the particular subject.\u00a0 <\/span>Ultimately, the focus of all his teaching is to take the chosen topic and help people worship God. \u00a0 <\/span>This has been taught over a period of 5 days, 4 lessons a day for a total of 20 lessons.\u00a0 <\/span>However, 50% of the time was taken up with translation, so the same course would be taught over a period of 10 hours.\u00a0 <\/span>Daily assignments of both questions and memory verses helps keep the attendees focused on the subject.\u00a0 <\/span>The unit is often concluded with a worship service to once again, encourage and experience delighting in God.\u00a0 <\/span>The attached outline provides an example of Michael\u2019s teaching module on the Trinity, \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Michael has also taught and preached in Malaysia and Ethiopia.\u00a0 <\/span>A\u00a0 <\/span>topic \u201cScientists View of Creation\u201d is a favorite of Michael\u2019s helping young people understand how to think through the data regarding how we got to be here.<\/p>

Discipleship:<\/p>

In the Western church there is a paucity of knowledge about the nature of the Trinity which leads to a reduced understanding of how to truly delight in God.\u00a0 <\/span>This is true in the PCA church that Michael belongs to.\u00a0 <\/span>Michael has used several different syllabi for men\u2019s discipleship.\u00a0 <\/span>The most intense one is the Life on Life series developed by Randy Pope, Perimeter Church, Atlanta GA.\u00a0 <\/span>This is a 3 year weekly program that helps men develop in grace in a range of different areas with a strong focus on developing relationships with non-Christians and how to share the gospel in a systematic way.\u00a0 <\/span>The other is Serge\u2019s Discipleship course which is designed for preparing missionaries (a required syllabus for all Serge Missionaries).\u00a0 <\/span>This helps refocus a Christian on their identity in Christ and to develop a lifestyle in which their \u201cboasting\u201d is more and more about Christ and less and less about themselves.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Michael has developed a 5-6 week course that he has used in both a Bible study and discipleship group.\u00a0 <\/span>The result of this has been a deeper understanding of God\u2019s love and a delight in worshipping Him.<\/p>

Michael has also developed a series of 5 videos on the Trinity to help people discover anew the delightfulness of the Trinity.\u00a0 <\/span>Each one is ~4 minutes each.\u00a0 <\/span>Whilst the initial focus was on the Trinity, the series provides a overview of the gospel as well.\u00a0 <\/span>A trifold has also been produced that can be handed out to people interested in knowing more about the Trinity, and as an evangelism tool.<\/p>

Theres is also a certified 8 lesson course titled \u201cLearning to Delight in the Trinity\u201d which is now part of the ITEM curriculum and being taught by Michael.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About Michael Michael Groves\u2019 desire is to use the gifts God has entrusted to him to come along side churches providing short term, detailed theological teaching and encouragement for a deeper knowledge and worship of our God. Michael heard the call of God whilst at University (UNE Armidale) in Australia when he was 20.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-588","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightingingod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}