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These documents reflect the contents of a course Chapman delivered in 1995 on preaching, at the MTS training conference. The course addresses were videoed and reproduced for wide distribution.

These notes contain Chapman’s reflections on the process of moving from text, to packaging, to application in sermon development.

The correspondence confirms the publishing relationship established between Chapman and Matthias Media for the republication of his popular work, Know and Tell the Gospel. The correspondence also reveals that the republished material was intended to address the growing discussion surrounding 1) the identity of the evangelist, 2) the supportive roles played by congregation members in the evangelistic process, and 3) the breadth of the Christian’s responsibility/involvement in evangelism.

The article relates a discussion between Chapman and Gerald Davis in 1978. It reveals Chapman’s developing views on ordination and the sacraments. It also gives Chapman’s rationale for some of the wider views on evangelism that had become popular in the 1970s.

The article provides a general review of the Alpha course. While Chapman believed that the sociology of the course was positive and appealing, he notes various reservations regarding the courses’ theological assumptions.

Correspondence between Chapman and David Claydon, Federal Secretary CMS, 1997 “Is Development a Missionary Task?” Checkpoint Magazine (Spring 1997), 6–8.
The correspondence and article reveal Chapman’s desire to safeguard the theology of mission as an activity of proclamation, which is supported by Christian service and social care, and not to conflate the two activities.

A profile of Chapman detailing the broad coordinates of his ministry.

This document was produced during Chapman’s time as Director of Christian Education, Armidale Diocese. It reveals, among other things, Chapman’s early influences by Reformed scholars, an ability for synthetic theological reflection, and a concern for disciplined Christian prayer.

This document reveals the full text of a series of addresses which Chapman gave at numerous points in his public ministry. Chapman states in the preface that the material owes its inspiration to a series of sermons given by Dr. Broughton Knox at the CMS Summer School for Queensland and Northern NSW in 1965. The addresses cover a range of themes including the sovereignty of God, the righteousness of God manifested in the atonement, the theme of the kingdom of God in the preaching ministry of Jesus and Paul, and the love of God in creation and redemption. These would become significant themes in Chapman’s later publications.

These greetings reveal:1) the geographical extent of Chapman’s ministry, 2) the esteem with which he was held by colleagues and ministry leaders across the world, and 3) sincere reflections on Chapman’s personal piety.