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toldailytopic: You are on a Pulpit Committee. What are two questions you will ask the
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As best as I am able, yes
I will try
With God's guidance, I will succeed
Buzzword
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1) Which is more important, worship or study?
2) Which is more important, the individual or the collective?
Both are trick questions.
If he/she chooses one over the other with either question he/she is unfit to lead a congregation, because he/she will cause division by favoring one or the other.
The key to coming to God in fellowship with one another is BALANCE.
Old and young, tradition and innovation, worship and study, experience and reason, emotion and intellect, individual and collective.
Notice, also, that neither question involves dogma or doctrine.
If he/she has his/her priorities set on finding balance, any doctrinal issues will work themselves out.
2) Which is more important, the individual or the collective?
Both are trick questions.
If he/she chooses one over the other with either question he/she is unfit to lead a congregation, because he/she will cause division by favoring one or the other.
The key to coming to God in fellowship with one another is BALANCE.
Old and young, tradition and innovation, worship and study, experience and reason, emotion and intellect, individual and collective.
Notice, also, that neither question involves dogma or doctrine.
If he/she has his/her priorities set on finding balance, any doctrinal issues will work themselves out.
Son of Jack
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All of life is worship.
Neither is more important. We are individually members (individuals) of the Body (the collective).
Good questions.
1. What do you believe the Bible to be? (This will stop him from feeling out the answer you want just to get in.)
2. Who do you believe Jesus to be?
Doormat
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Psalm 116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
If that is true, it follows that you believe nobody loves God. You are implying that we are liars if we claim we love God, and you are implicitly claiming that you don't love God. Are you really thinking carefully about the things you say on this forum before posting?
Would you hire a pastor that told you he did not love God and did not love his neighbor?
That is a non sequitur.
John's parents both loved the LORD with all their heart ...
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
... yet Jesus died to free them from those ordinances.
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Doormat
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You're hired!
I like these.
toldailytopic: You are on a Pulpit Committee. What are two questions you will ask the pastoral candidate? |
Are you a pastor who will rely on the church staff to help you.
Apart from you application/resume, is there anything about yourself, your family or the past that you haven't told us.
Apart from you application/resume, is there anything about yourself, your family or the past that you haven't told us.
How are elders chosen? How do you determine which of the elders has the gift of teaching?
1. If you're so religious, how come you ain't Amish?
2. You are Amish? When can you start?
2. You are Amish? When can you start?
1) What is the way to salvation and how many ways there are?
2) Do you believe that the bible is the word of God and do you believe it all?
2) Do you believe that the bible is the word of God and do you believe it all?
HisServant
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God raises them up and they are approved by the congregation...
How do you know if God raised someone up with the gift of teaching?
How does the congregation approve it?
eameece
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Some of these questions I did ask, as a matter of fact; to no avail.... ministers are a pretty sad lot....
Will you let the congregation run the church? Will you interfere in what they are doing?
Will you be respectful and not rudely order people around?
Will you encourage people to be creative, or just insist that they feed out of your mouth like some sort of egomaniac cult leader?