What is the relationship between clergy leadership behaviors and burnout? How does destructive leadership behavior relate to burnout? What about conflict at church?  How does a minister being the target of personal violence correlate to thoughts of quitting? How is it different if you are a solo minister or part of a team?  And what if you are the team leader or a team member?  Plus how is it different for women in ministry?We discuss this past episode and this one  See Valerie’s commentsValerie Ling leads the Sydney’s Center for Effective Living and Center for Effective Serving http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/behaviour-and-burnout-valerie-lingThe 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 we as pastors help people with addictions? Addictions to alcohol, gambling, narcotics, gaming and sex addictions.How much is sin? How much is addiction? Penny Wilkinson and her husband Andrew direct the Overcomers Outreach ministry and the Overcomers Place in Sydney. Penny has just marked 20 years of Sobriety, having had her last drink of alcohol on 18 March 2003.http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/overcomers-penny-andrew-wilkinsonThe 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.

We are not called to be entertainers, but preachers.  How might we as individuals and as leaders of God’s people tremble before him? And are we going soft on this?What is the connection between the text and the preacher? As a preacher, how long since you have been rebuked and repented? How has your world view has been challenged recently? Paul Grimmond is Dean of Students at Sydney’s Moore Theological College. Phil Coglan is senior pastor at Sydney’s St George North Anglican Church.  They were both keynote speakers at the ‘Tremble at His word’ Nexus Conference in Sydney last week (http://nexusconference.sydney).http://thepastorsheart.net/podcast/tremble-at-his-word-phil-colgan-paul-grimmondThe 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 might our church best relate to other organisations (churches, denominations and parachurches) who are also engaged in the grand cause of reaching the world for Christ?What is the difference between a church and parachurch and how might they best interact? Are para-churches really just crypto-churches? And would we be better off calling them what they really are?   Or do we need to change our patterns of governance and membership to make room for a broader and more diffuse idea of church? There are a whole lot of complexities and difficulties wrapped up with how we function togther? Mikey Lynch is a Director of Reach Australia and is the new editorial director for the Gospel Coalition Australia.  Mikey leads the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students staff team doing ministry in Hobart at the University of Tasmania. Matthias Media have just released his new book ‘The Vine Movement - supporting gospel growth beyond your church.’https://matthiasmedia.com/products/the-vine-movementSupport The Pastor's Heart 'Heart of Gafcon' coverage by clicking here. 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 do we work together in complementarian ministry as we lead small group bible studies/growth groups/community groups? Small groups are the heart beats of our churches, where we wrestle together on how God might have us live.  Most groups have a male and female paired together in leadership. But how do those two people work together?Do we see their roles as identical/mirror images of the other.  Or are the roles different? Kara Hartley is Archdeacon for Women’s ministry in the Sydney Anglican Church. Tony Payne is chair of Matthias Media, serves on team at Campus Bible Study at Sydney's UNSW, and podcasts with Phillip Jensen at Two Ways News. 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.

Just over a decade ago Bishop Robert Forsyth and I were engaged in a church discipline process that eventually ended up before the NSW Supreme Court. Today we address lessons learned during that difficult season. Robert and I will relive a difficult part of our lives. Associate Professor of Law Neil Foster will bring expert commentary. Can I urge you to be circumspect in discussing this episode.  We have been careful in our words. We want to warn against maverick comments on social media. Nothing in this episode should be taken as legal advice. - Dominic Steele, Minister Bishop Robert Forsyth is the Former Anglican Bishop of South Sydney. Associate Professor Neil Foster is on the faculty of the University of Newcastle, and is the author of the popular Law and Religion Australia blog. Supreme Court Judgement link here Sydney Anglican report 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.

The Church of England departs the historic Christian Faith - with Archbishop Justin Badi Arama12 Primates of the Global South Provinces have issued a statement saying ‘The Church of England has departed from the historic faith, passed down from the Apostles.’The Primates - who are all national leaders within the denomination - say that the Church of England has disqualified herself from leading the Anglican Communion.They say the Church of England has chosen to break communion with those provinces who remain faithful to the historic biblical faith. The Chair of Global South, Archbishop Justin Badi of South Sudan, says they are withdrawing support for Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who has led his House of Bishops to make recommendations that run contrary to the faith & order of the orthodox provinces in the communion.See the Global South Media ReleaseThe 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 Church of England has betrayed the Anglican Communion says Former Archbishop Peter Jensen. In a challenging, not to be missed conversation, Dr. Jensen, the former General Secretary of the Gafcon movement and former Archbishop of Sydney, speaks candidly about his own shock and grief at last week’s General Synod decision, which he says is a crossing of the rubicon and will have far bigger consequences than those who brought it could have imagined. The Church of England official media release says “The General Synod has welcomed proposals which would enable same-sex couples to come to church after a civil marriage or civil partnership to give thanks, dedicate their relationship to God and receive God’s blessing.”Dr Jensen says he has a particular heart for the deeply Christian faithful individuals experiencing same sex attraction and other chaste single Christians, who have been let down so badly by the English synod.Dr Jensen shares a pastoral encouragement to faithful believers within the English Church as they work our their response and notes the GAFCON movement is ready to provide pastoral support and encouragement, through the AMIE network (https://www.anglicanmissioninengland.org). –Church of England Media Statement http://bit.ly/3YS1wGtArchbishop of Canterbury speech to the Anglican Consultative Council https://bit.ly/3E5QcOUThe 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.

Christian kids musician and entertainer Colin Buchanan joins Dominic Steele on The Pastor's Heart, to answer questions submitted over the last few weeks plus a few questions that Colin wrote himself.Plus Colin premieres a new song 'If you have ever made a mess, say yes!'Check Colin's website:  https://colinbuchanan.com.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.

Archie Poulos has given us a list of books that he’s read in the last 12 months that have stimulated him to think about different ministry areas. Archie’s recommendations include: Explore by the Book. 90 days guided Bible reading.The Coming of the Holy Spirit, Phillip JensenThe Moon is Always Round, Johnny Gibson Biblical Critical Theory, Chris WatkinThe Tower and the Square, Niall Ferguson. Mere Sexuality, Tod Wilson  The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl TruemanThe Congregation in a secular age, Andrew Root Embracing Complementarianism, Graham Beynon and Jane TooherDecisive , Heath BrothersThe Definitive Book of Body Language, Allan and Barbara Pease Archie Poulos heads the ministry department at Sydney’s Moore Theological College and is just finishing a PhD on how we can work better together in ministry. Order online from The Wandering Booksellerhttp://www.wanderingbookseller.com.au/archie http://www.thepastorsheart.com/podcast/archie-poulos-good-books-to-readThe 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.