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 

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. 

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.

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.

Claims today that the global leader of the Anglican Church is out of step with God.

The Primates of the Global Anglican Fellowship (GAFCON), meeting in Kigali Rwanda, have said that Archbishop Justin Welby has,

‘Departed from the authentic exercise of his office by normalising and praising those who have departed from biblical teaching and practice…and giving equal place to practices contrary to biblical norms, as Anglicans have received them. We urge him to repent.’ (https://bit.ly/3DmPVas)

And the Archbishop of Canterbury’s explanations are described as disingenuous if not duplicitous.

The Gafcon Primates statement comes on top of the statement from the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches, which if anything, is even stronger.

The Global South Fellowship says,

‘Archbishop Welby’s first position is lamentable; his second is repugnant to our understanding of the authority and clarity of Holy Scripture. The notion of ‘pluriform’ truth is contrary to the Anglican Ordinal which binds duly consecrated bishops to be responsible for the guarding, teaching and imparting of divine truth in Holy Scripture.’ (https://bit.ly/3smoqas)

A hard look at confronting data with Raj Gupta as we face up to the ‘elephant in the room’ conversation that we need to be having.