A special edition featuring GAFCON’s new leaders Archbishops Foley Beach and Benjamin Kwashi.The most significant movement within the Anglican Church globally is GAFCON, representing 50 million of the world’s 70 million Anglicans. GAFCON aims to remain faithful to Jesus and the scriptures, and not follow the cultural winds.The GAFCON Primates Council resolved last week in Sydney to hold a global conference of bishops just six weeks before the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lambeth Conference.  Read the communique HERE.The new GAFCON Bishops conference will serve Bishops who won’t participate in Lambeth because of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to invite Provinces which have formally abandoned the teaching of Jesus in the area of sexuality.The new leaders of GAFCON, Primate’s Council Chair, Archbishop Foley Beach (of the Anglican Church in North America) and General Secretary Benjamin Kwashi (of Jos, Nigeria) sat down with Dominic Steele to talk about their heart as pastors and the future of GAFCON and the Anglican Church. The 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.

Do you sometimes wonder how effective your growth groups are in growing disciples? Want to know how to measure the effectiveness of your growth group ministry? Peter Mayrick talks to us to gather insight on changing growth group ministry to focus more on outcomes rather than just input. As church leaders how can we be confident with the answer to the question "are people growing in Jesus?"Subscribe to our Podcast here and take the Pastor's Heart with you! https://www.thepastorsheart.net/footerABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUEST, PETER MAYRICKAfter a career in Senior Business Management, Peter joined Moore College's Centre for Ministry Development in 2012 to support and coach Pastors as they lead churches in Christ's mission. Read more about CMD at https://cmd.moore.edu.au/The 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 preach better? How can we work together to do this? It's through collaboration.Steve Cree leads the ministry team at Queensland’s influential Living Church (formerly known as Creek Road Presbyterian).Steve’s taken a significantly innovative approach, helping pastors work in collaboration with pastors of other churches to better teach and pastor their flocks. Steve says, by working together, we can serve our people better.The 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.

Ten so-called Christians from across the theological and denominational spectrum came together for a week in a reality TV program called ‘Christians like Us,’ screened in Australia on SBS.One of those housemates, Assumpta Venkatachalam shares her story of a week inside the house, where they navigated topics including women in ministry, homosexuality, child sex abuse, speaking to atheists, biblical authority, sex before marriage, abortion, and the future of Christianity. Assumpta is joined by Russell Powell, CEO of Anglican Media Sydney, who originally suggested her to the program’s producers.Check out this article by Assumpta.The 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.

Dean of Sydney Kanishka Raffel says it’s now difficult if not impossible for people to be Christian, respectable and successful, and yet so many of our people are used to being all three of these. Kanishka says church leaders today face significant external and internal pressures today, in the new era post Same Sex Marriage, post George Pell’s conviction and post the Royal Commission into abuse in churches. Kanishka reminds us this cultural shift is not new for Christians, in parts of Egypt the word for Christian is ‘garbage collector.’  But it’s a massive cultural change for us in the west. He calls on us to refocus on 2Timothy 3-4 and Preach the word, in and out of season.  Reminding us that it never feels like the right time to speak, but we need to summon up our courage do that. How do we demonstrate our conviction of the sufficiency of God’s word?How do you prioritise what you do as a church leader?How do you keep your preaching from being predictable, formulaic or dull? How do we lead a team, when there are so many team bust ups these days?The 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 do evangelism better?  What is working?  What can we do better? Where do we shoot ourselves in the foot?  In a change to our regular format we feature a live panel discussion from the Nexus Conference, Evangelism lets do better.In a ‘no holds barred’ discussion, the panelists are Village Church Annandale pastor Dominic Steele, Unichurch UNSW’s Alison Napier and St George North Anglican pastor Phil Colgan. The discussion is chaired by UNSW Unichurch pastor Carl Matthei. The 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.

Mark Dever says we can do better at evangelism.  Mark is the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington and is visiting Australia to speak at the Nexus19 conference (in partnership with the Gospel Coalition). Mark says it’s important to 1 Remember that churches exist for supernatural change2 Understand that persecution is normal3 Eschew utopianism4 Make use of our democratic stewardship5 Trust the Lord, not human circumstances6 Remember that everything we have is given by God's grace7 Rest in the certainty of Christ's victory.Mark joins Dominic Steele to talk about his heart for evangelism. The 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.

A fascinating journey into an important aspect of Australian evangelicalism’s family story with Senior Pastor of Perth’s Providence Church, Rory Shiner. We look at the amazing legacy of former Sydney Vice Principal of Moore Theological College Donald Robinson, his fresh reading of the Scriptures, fathering of the Australian biblical theological movement, what became known as the ‘Knox-Robinson view of church’ and remarkable new insights into the Jew Gentile relationships in the New Testament. Plus how Robinson shaped a subsequent generation of significant leaders theologically, including Phillip Jensen and Graham Goldsworthy. The interview coincides with the release of a further two books in the Donald Robinson collection. To purchase go to http://bit.ly/donaldrobinsonLink to the landmark talk by Phillip Jensen from 1988 ‘Why Bishops are deacons’ which was referenced in the discussion.  https://phillipjensen.com/sermons/1988-why-bishops-are-deacons/The 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 issues facing church leaders in regards to stress, thriving, surviving and burnout?Psychologist Valerie Ling, from the Centre For Effective Living, counsels and trains ministry workers on these issues. There are important issues for those in solo ministry, serving as team members and as team leaders. Valerie says she sees person after person suffering from burnout, and yet it is so preventable. How can we move beyond surviving to sustainable leadership, clarity of purpose, intentional living, a sense of self, supportive relationships, and mismatch areas in ministry? Further reading:Thriving and burnout https://drive.google.com/a/villagechurch.sydney/file/d/1uHSdK4d5FjbIri9hFVYlplqVcKlIQ5D7/view?usp=sharingSpiritual Foundations https://drive.google.com/a/villagechurch.sydney/file/d/1uD6GwViQfejhxKEmyAIW4YLEC1iwxppx/view?usp=sharingClarity of purpose https://drive.google.com/a/villagechurch.sydney/file/d/1u83cZ2vymdr0V3NACxcxRge9sbrDarBi/view?usp=sharingSense of Self https://drive.google.com/a/villagechurch.sydney/file/d/1uAtGIbpCswyXvvj7571oGt3Rfmel1C3S/view?usp=sharingIntegration https://drive.google.com/a/villagechurch.sydney/file/d/1uC2OWR1ltmiw2flQIwPnpJSgNHvBseyn/view?usp=sharingSupportive relationships https://drive.google.com/a/villagechurch.sydney/file/d/1u1Rg9QOkSnragNYsEXBXTCOtVAkcHcM6/view?usp=sharingThe 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.

Keith and Sarah Condie have been working at strengthening marriages for more than two decades.  They started on this journey when Keith was working at Moore Theological College, and there was a year of college graduates, where seven graduate couples of the college suffered marriage breakdowns. Keith and Sarah have conducted dozens of marriage enrichment courses and seminars at churches across Australia, and have recently produced ‘Building a safe and strong marriage’ which is now available to order.Keith and Sarah now work as directors of the Pastoral Care and Mental Health Institute at Anglican Deaconess Ministries, Sydney.  They are talking here about how they have been able to help ministry couples relationships that have been in crisis and the launch of their new course. The 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.