Answering your questions about a daily weekday bible study with a goal of growing your members daily bible reading habits. http://villagechurch.sydney/dailybibletimeThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

How can we as pastors lead proactively out of the COVID quagmire and not just be reactive? What adaptive change issues are open to us?  How can we use this moment to go deeper with discipleship?  And is this the greatest moment of evangelism? Post COVID, will there be a sense that small is beautiful?  How can we get back to big gatherings? Should we aspire to that?  As we are weary and anxious what can we learn from God? How do you care for your staff team? What does pastoral leadership on vaccination look like?Guy Mason is senior pastor of Melbourne’s City on a Hill. They have campuses in Melbourne, Geelong, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Surf Coast and soon in Wollongong.http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/covid-proactive-guy-masonThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

What are the implications of viewing  Christ’s crucifixion, when Jesus experienced being in the wrong flesh, as BODY DYSPHORIA?What are the implications of our bodies being created, broken and redeemed? Is my body me? Sam Allberry says for some the real me is my soul or spirit.  The body is a simply a lump of matter I am connected to.  It is the blank canvas on which I can paint my identity. For others the body is much more significant.  Much of our identity is based on what our body looks like. But what does God say? And what is the significance of our sex organs?Sam is a preacher, pastor and apologist.  He’s on the staff of Immanuel Church in Nashville in the United States, but joins us on the line from the UK.To order: What God has to say about our bodies? http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/bodies-allberryThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

How and should Christian pastors exercise leadership in the debate over vaccination? What role should the church leader play in speaking to members about vaccination when there’s a range of different perspectives? What difference will selfish individualism vs an ethic of other person centredness/ community responsibility make to the vaccination rollout? What’s the impact of the society’s loss of confidence in government, science and journalism on the current debate?Plus, How should we feel about suggestions to make vaccination passports for church attendance mandatory (whether imposed by government or denominational or local leadership)?John McClean is Vice Principal and Ethics Lecturer at Sydney’s Presbyterian Christ College. Phillip Jensen is former Anglican Dean of Sydney and now leads Two Ways Ministries. Ray Galea pastors the influential MBM church in the heart of the COVID hotspot area in Western Sydney.  http://www.thepastorsheart.net/vaccinationThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

How do you have a budget that is driven by vision and mission rather than just by taking last years and adding a CPI increase?  And what does a pledge and commitment season look like in 2021?What’s the process for developing a budget that works to grow your vision each year?And how do you roll it out with your church?Plus what if the amount pledged is not enough to cover expenses?Pete Stedman is senior pastor of Norwest Anglican Church in Sydney’s North West and joins us today to talk about how not to have ‘Step off a cliff and cross your fingers church budgeting.’ Links: Norwest pledging strategy,  Norwest 2019 pledge letter, Norwest 2020 pledge letter, Village annual pledge brochure 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021; Village pledge videos,  Village 2020 Intergenerational gift brochure, Village 2020 Intergenerational gift videosWatch the discussion hereThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

Good leaders multiply disciple making ministry.  And yet most of us would admit that our churches struggle with leadership development. Author of ‘Wisdom in Leadership Development’ Craig Hamilton has lots of wisdom about how the average church can develop a leadership pipeline. https://matthiasmedia.com.au/collections/latest/products/wisdom-in-leadership-developmentCraig serves as senior minister of Pitt Town Anglican Church. His book includes ten commandments for creating a leadership pipeline.  Going from one layer to the next takes intentionality and specific trainingThe goal isn’t to ‘level up’Being good at a ministry doesn’t mean you should advance up the pipeline Being awesome at one layer tells you nothing about whether you’ll be awesome at the nextThe behaviours that cause success at one layer will sometimes compromise it at the nextDon’t skip layersThe goal is not toe be optimally proficient in every skill at every layerThe further along the pipeline you are the more things changeThe pipeline can get clogged at any levelLife is often not as neat as the pipelinehttp://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/leadership-developmentThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

The resignation of Rev Andrew Pearson as rector of the 11-hundred strong Advent Cathedral in Birmingham, Alabama has come as a shock. The conventional wisdom had been that Advent could ride the storms of liberalism surrounding it, despite many other evangelicals being gradually forced out of America’s Episcopal Church over the last decade.However, the Cathedral’s vestry has recently capitulated to the demands of the new Alabama Episcopal bishop. Andrew says an ultimatum was put to him by two successive bishops, ‘change or leave the denomination.’  Andrew speaks about how he reluctantly came to realise there was no future for him in the Episcopal denomination, and that he needed to leave.He speaks about joining the Anglican Church in North America, what it’s like now serving under a bishop he can trust in Foley Beach, and his plans for a new church plant in Birmingham.http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/andrew-pearsonThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

Anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, defeat & loss of agency… in this lockdown period. The research shows this is especially a problem for young adults but for all us as well.Mike Sheedy is the Head of Mental Health and Trinette Stanley is Family & Life Skills Educator with Anglicare. What can we as pastors do to help our staff, members and the broader community? Mike Sheedy’s paper on Emotional Wellbeing during COVID19 lockdownhttp://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/wellbeing-in-lockdown21The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

Update SATURDAY (3.4.21): NSW Health minister overturns his department’s misstep. THURSDAY (1.7.21): During Sydney’s lockdown churches have reverted to livestream services. The current (26.6.2021) Public Health Order under point 14, allows performance singing in NSW, which we have taken to include band leaders in churches (especially those singing in livestream ‘performances’ in a room without congregation present). But what to do with a Multicultural NSW email sent around yesterday 30.6.2021, which says ‘singing is not permitted in indoor places of public worship?  This includes during a livestream and in regional New South Wales.’? But what authority does that email have?  Should we follow the Public Health Order or the more stringent Multicultural NSW email? Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel says, ‘I think the wisest course is to accept the advice for this coming weekend’. But significantly his letter does not contain an instruction/directive.  Rather he offers it as wisdom or advice. To help us decide what to do?  We speak to Associate Professor of Law, Neil Foster, plus Rev David Clarke from Hoxton Park Anglican Church and Adrian Russell from Northmead Anglican. http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/can-we-sing-neil-foster-adrian-russell-david-clarkeThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

Most of us would agree that the purpose of the Church is to make disciples - but as Christian leaders, how do we engage in discipling our flock?It’s a reflective episode as we discuss what our staff and congregations require from us. We talk with Peter Mayrick, from Sydney’s Centre for Ministry Development about Church leadership, setting Church culture and discipling individuals. Peter shares his experience, outlining how to intentionally ensure your people are growing in Jesus. Peter  shares his model for training senior leaders and how to have serious, encouraging congregations. He also shares how to change Church culture and ensure staff and key lay leaders feel supported. http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/imitate-christ-peter-mayrickThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.