We are a growing, debt-free, independent Baptist church in search of a Lead Senior Pastor with the following experience and responsibilities:
- Must have experience in managing a staff of at least of two associate ministers
- Must have experience leading, mentoring, and discipling a congregation of several hundred people.
- Must have spiritual/life counseling experience
- Experience with conflict resolution
- Focused emphasis on individual confessions of salvation and spiritual growth of church members as key indicators of church growth over total service attendance numbers
- Committed to World Wide Missions
- Leads and Mentors the church without controlling the church(Pastor led-not Pastor controlled)
- To proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ
- To teach Biblical Truth
- To engage in pastoral ministries and shepherding dispensations
- Develops and commits to visitation ministry
- Committed to working in unity and establishing good relationships with community churches and leaders.
- Teaches potential members about the Church and our doctrines before they become members
- To provide administrative leadership in all areas of church life.
- Act as the chief administrator of all paid church staff.
- Shall be at liberty to teach the whole counsel of the Word of God as led by God through expository preaching.
A Senior Pastoral candidate will meet the scripture requirements of pastor/overseer as outlined:
1 Timothy 3:1-7 (ESV)
3 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.
Titus 1: 6-9 (ESV)
6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
A Senior Pastoral candidate will also hold to the same faith, allegiance, and beliefs of our Church as dispelled to us from God’s Holy Word and can be reviewed here: www.baptist-temple.com/about/beliefs