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?
How do we work together in complementarian ministry as we lead small group bible studies/growth groups/community groups?
Most groups have a male and female leadership paired together in leadership. But how do those two people work together?
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
The church of England departs the Christian faith - with Archbishop Justin Badi
12 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.
The Church of England official media release says “The Church of England’s 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.”
The House of Bishops took a proposal to bless same sex marriages in church to the English general synod last week, in an initiative led by the Bishop of London, the Bishop of York and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
And yet what do the words in the synod resolution actually mean?
Dr Peter Jensen is the former general secretary of the Gafcon movement and former Archbishop of Sydney.
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 premiers a new song 'If you have ever made a mess, say yes!'
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.
The Bishops of the Church of England have announced that same sex relationships will be able to be blessed in Church of England churches.
In a massive turnaround, the English bishops are saying that what God says is sin, is blessed.
The prophet Isaiah says,
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. - Isaiah 5:20
Most of us evangelical pastors, theological colleges, indeed the whole of evangelicalism - we have a blind spot when it comes to Roman Catholicism in our theology, missiology and practice.
Where do we as Evangelicals make mistakes in our engagement with the Roman Catholic world?
What can we change? What should we change?
How do we best see our Roman Catholic friends come to a personal saving relationship with Jesus Christ?
How does the Bible’s unfolding story makes sense of modern life and culture ?
Christopher Watkin, who lectures in Philosophy at Monash University, has a new book out, Biblical Critical Theory, that paints a picture of a Biblical Theological worldview and interacts well along the way with all the major thinkers of the age.
Today we profile the Christian faith of one of the most significant figures of the early colony of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, and his evangelical wife Elizabeth (yes the one used to sit in Mrs Macquaries Chair just across from where the Sydney Opera House is).
In this ‘Best Of’ episode we discuss John Harris’ book ‘Judging the Macquaries’ - with Peter Adam
Harris’ book scrutinises and reassesses the lives of early governor of NSW Lachlan Macquarie and Elizabeth.
“Personally, I wouldn’t be game to use something that I know is inadequate” - Christian Author Tony Payne has watched through the latest Alpha materials.
Tony joins Dominic Steele in this BEST OF episode to work through the strengths and weaknesses of the Alpha Course.
One of the most respected voices in the Evangelical World, the senior minister of St Ebbes in Oxford, Vaughan Roberts, is calling on his own bishop and many of the leaders of the Church of England to repent and return to the Apostolic Christian Faith or failing that pursue a provincial level split.
It’s a reverse Pastor’s Heart as Craig Hamilton asks Dominic Steele a series of questions at the Hustle Leadership Conference.
How was Dominic Steele changed by those ten things that went wrong and mistakes he made in 2010
What does it look like for him to ‘fill up in his flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions’?
Ten things that went wrong, the mistakes he made, and the day he almost resigned.
Dominic Steele has just notched up twenty years as senior pastor of Village Church in Annandale, Sydney. But it hasn’t always been plain sailing.
