Praying as a Pastoral Search Committee

If nothing else, read through the prayer suggestions at the end. 

Most pastoral search committes / pulpit nominating committees would say that they believe prayer is important.  But, how many really pray . . . As always, it would be encouraging to hear if you find this helpful.  You can e-mail me at chris at theredbrickchurch.org (or course, you have to use the @ sign without spaces). 

Pastoral Search Interview Questions

 Let me say at the onset, I do NOT think pastoral search committees or pulpit nominating committees should only interview a potential pastor about preaching.  But, certainly, preaching should be a major part of what they interview a potential pastor about.Below are some potential interview questions about preaching.  You probably won’t want to use them all.  Maybe you will only want to use one or two.  But, at least these give some idea of how you might interview a potential pastor about preaching.

I know the questions are all numbered one.  When I pasted the material into my blog, it did that with the numbers, and I don’t have the energy to change them all right now. . .

If this material is helpful, I would love to hear about it.  You can e-mail me at chris at theredbrickchurch.org.

Pastoral Search Committee Sermon Evaluation Form

Pastoral Search Committees / PNC’s / Pulpit nominating committees usually say their first goal is a pastor who preaches well. Yet, few evaluate sermons against any objective criteria.

Below is an excerpt of material I wrote that gives suggestions for how search committees should evaluate sermons.

If you would like more information, you can e-mail me at chris at theredbrickchurch.org.

Got Preaching? On Pastoral Search Committees

Arguably, the most strategic decision that a local church makes is calling a preaching pastor.  When a local church calls a lead or senior pastor, they almost always want a pastor who will preach with excellence.  Yet, often pastoral search committees do not know how to go about achieving that goal.

Unfortunately, there are essentially no resources available designed to help pastoral search committees / pulpit nominating committees succeed in calling an excellent preaching pastor.  

Books and resources designed for pastoral search committees / pulpit nominating committees focus on areas other than preaching, and these areas are important.  Yet preaching is the center of what their next pastor will do, and there is nothing available to help churches call a pastor who will preach with excellence.

You can read the below excerpt from my doctoral thesis which focused on developing a resource that will help local churches call a pastor who will preach with excellence. . . This is the introduction to my entire thesis - - it introduces the problem.  So, it is written in a technical way - - It is not a portion of the manual I developed.

I am praying that the manual/resource I developed might serve a local church looking for their next preaching pastor.