Graham Beynon

Graham Beynon, BEng, MSc, BA, PhD

Director of Independent Ministry Training

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Oak Hill helps shape people in their character, thinking and skills so they can give themselves to a lifetime of ministry."

Graham Beynon believes in the local church and in theological training for the sake of the local church. He tries to fulfil these convictions by being pastor of Grace Church, Cambridge, and Director of Independent Ministry Training at Oak Hill.

Graham believes we need church leaders and workers who are biblically grounded, theologically astute, historically aware and pastorally focused. He teaches on a variety of areas including leadership, church polity, church history and corporate worship.

His PhD was from St Andrews University, examining the theology of Isaac Watts. He is the author of a number of books including Emotions: Living Life in Colour (2012, IVP), God’s New Community: New Testament Patterns for Today’s Church (2005, IVP), Planting for the Gospel: a hands on guide to church planting (2011, Christian Focus) and Isaac Watts: His Life and Thought (2013, Christian Focus).

Graham was previously an audiological scientist working with hearing and balance disorders. He then moved to pastor churches in Leicester and Cambridge. He has particularly been involved in leading church plants. He is married to Charis and they have three children. In his spare time he enjoys watching TV with his wife, walking with their dog, trying his hand at DIY, watching sport and playing 5-a-side football.

Please find examples of Graham's work linked below:

Isaac Watts: Reason, Passion and the Revival of Religion

This book examines the motivation for Watts' work in writing hymns, and the way in which he wrote them; and discusses his preaching and prayer. In each of these practical topics Watts's position is compared to earlier Puritans to show the difference his thinking on reason and passion makes in practice. Isaac Watts is shown to have a coherent position on the foundational issues of reason and passion which drove his view of revival of religion.

T&T Clark, 2018

Surprised by the Commandments

A rediscovering of the 10 commandments, this is an informative and supportive guide to Christian living and ethics – a modern approach into preaching the Good News to today’s generation.

IVP, 2016

Money Counts

In this book Graham Beynon shows us how to control our money rather than our money controlling us. In this readable, realistic book, he takes us to the gospel to show how we can handle money well in our hearts, so we can handle it confidently and wisely with our hands.

Good Book Company, 2016

School of Theology 2018

Graham spoke about 'Ministry Among Images' at this event.

School of Theology 2019 was the first in a series of three study days on the doctrine of humanity.

The event considered the question, ‘Who am I?’ This is fundamentally a theological and pastoral question. It’s one that resonates widely with issues of identity in contemporary culture. Yet without a robust understanding of the biblical teaching on the image of God, we often find ourselves scrambling in the messiness of ministry. Our aim was to make everything we do in ministry – evangelism, preaching, counselling, discipleship – rooted in our doctrine of the imago dei.