The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

What do you do when there’s conflict in your church?  Because there will be at some point. How can you deal with conflict well? What do you do when there’s no conflict to prepare for the times when conflict will come? How to you give your people a framework for understanding and resolving conflict? What do you do when a couple comes to you and the marriage is a warzone? What should you outsource? What should you do yourself? Bruce Burgess is the Australian Director of Peacewise. Subscribe to The Pastor's Heart audio podcast: RSS feed: http://bit.ly/thepastorsrss iTunes feed: https://j.mp/thepastorsheartThe Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How do you not just work ‘in the ministry’ but ‘on the ministry’?How does a senior pastor lead in vision, finances, staffing and money to promote the gospel of Christ?How do we communicate, execute and celebrate the vision?How to teach on generosity?How do we ask graciously?What are the mistakes to avoid?Rod Irvine was senior minister of Figtree Anglican Church Wollongong and has written ‘Giving generously: resourcing local church ministry.’Subscribe to The Pastor's Heart audio podcast:RSS feed: http://bit.ly/thepastorsrssiTunes feed: https://j.mp/thepastorsheartCatch up on our previous episodes at www.thepastorsheart.netThe Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

A good friend tells you when you have something stuck between your teeth just before the photograph is taken.Scotland’s David Andrew Robertson was a guest on The Pastor’s Heart a few months ago and is a good friend (http://bit.ly/2vp3MJ4).  In an interview with ACR, having spent three months in Sydney, he’s had some significant things to say about the Sydney Anglican Church and asks have we gone off the boil on seeking the lost saved? On Tuesday 7 August at 2pm, Phil Colgan from St George North Anglican Church and Craig Schafer from St Mark's Pennant Hills for a live discussion with Dominic Steele to discuss what we can learn from from David’s critiqueThe Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

What is poverty?  What gospel do poor people need?  How have parachurch ministries made the problem worse?  What does evangelism look like in poor communities?  What role for preaching?  What does church membership and discipline look like?How can we see a transformation in desperate poor communities in Scotland or Australia?Mez McConnell is the senior pastor of Niddrie Community Church in Edinburgh, Scotland, and founder of 20 Schemes, a ministry dedicated to building gospel-centered churches for Scotland’s poorest communities. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

As a senior minister what should you do if you have a porn addiction? What if it’s a staff member of senior lay leader? How do you preach to the congregation about these issues?We talk to Marshall Ballantine-Jones who is doing a PhD on this topic, and who says there’s a significant rate of porn consumption in the general community, the church and amongst church leaders.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Albert Bernstein calls them ‘Emotional Vampires’ How do I (as a senior pastor) express the love of Jesus to those with different personality disorders: the narcissist, histrionic, paranoid personality disorder, OCD (both types), psychopaths, or the person with borderline personality disorder?  There are people in every church who consume much more than their fair share of everyone's time and energy, particularly the senior ministers time.  Jenni Woodhouse is a former chaplain to the Professional Standards Department of the Sydney Anglican Church and now is a chaplain to missionaries with the Church Missionary Society.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Sacrifice: The tension between living the good life and dying to self. Have you tried zealously to serve the Lord and hit the wall?Are you living the sacrificial Christian life and wondering why so few are keeping up?Do you regularly give spiritual advice to others?Do you have the sneaking suspicion that you are not a real Christian?We do some of the worst things in the name of the greatest causes!  And we can hurt those closest to us. Should we nobly burn out ourselves, our relationships and our world for the cause of gospel proclamation?  Should we feel guilty for any creature comfort?Mikey Lynch joins us on The Pastor’s Heart from Tasmania.  Mikey is the Campus Director of AFES Hobart, he chairs the Vision 100 church planting network there, and is a founding director of Geneva Push. Mikey is a deep thinker, and has just written a book, The good life in the last days: the tension between living the good life and dying to self.He’s written it for the strong and sacrificial person, the bruised reed and the pastor/preacher and teacher. You can order Mikey's book online from Matthias Media.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

We are talking about and with the minister who loses it all, when the diocese moves into apostasy, leaving you and your people as faithful followers of Christ Jesus, but without denominational support, stripped of your ministerial license, church building and house. This week we talk to four men and one woman who have been and are in that situation. - From Canada, David Short. - From the US, Chuck Thebeau (and his daughter Rachel)- From Scotland, David McCarthy.- From NZ, Dave Clancey.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

The Anglican Dean of Sydney Kanishka Raffel and Senior Minister of MBM Rooty Hill Ray Galea join Dominic Steele, by the shores of Lake Galilee in Israel, to discuss last week’s important Anglican Gafcon Conference in Jerusalem.Plus we play out an extended interview with Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, who serves as the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, with it's 25,000,000 million members and as the chairman of the Gafcon Primate’s Council.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How can you build a church building, so you don’t quit in the 12 months after the project is finished.This is a discussion for pastors. But also for parish council and committees of management.Andrew Robson has taken a lead roll in three major church building projects, two at EV Church, on the Central Coast of NSW, and is currently taking the lead at St Paul's Anglican Carlingford’s major rebuild.When I rang him to line up this interview, he was standing over a pit of previously undiscovered asbestos.We will be asking him about what he’s learned? What he wouldn’t do again?But what are your questions about any aspect of building a new church building* Vision and ministry principles relating to building design,* Ministry philosophy of church buildings and space,* The value of aesthetics,* How much to spend on big ticket items like sound/AV, lighting, furniture?* How to resolve differences of opinion and make compromises?The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show