Primary Responsibilities:

• Preaching and Teaching: Delivering expositional sermons and ensuring the quality of gospel-centered preaching, providing approximately 70% of the preaching at gatherings.
• Vision Casting and Strategic Planning: Developing and communicating the church's vision and mission in collaboration with elders and staff, and participating in long-term strategic planning.
• Spiritual and Theological Oversight: Providing spiritual guidance, maintaining doctrinal integrity, and ensuring all teachings and activities are biblically sound.
• Pastoral Care: Offering counseling, visitations, support in times of need, and performing funerals and weddings, in collaboration with pastors and staff.
• Leadership and Staff Development: Mentoring and training emerging leaders, including elders and ministry leaders, and developing new preachers through assessment and mentoring.
• Elder Collaboration: Working closely with the elder team to make strategic decisions, set goals, ensure effective shepherding, and coordinate elder training.
• Worship Planning: Coordinating with worship leaders to plan meaningful gatherings that foster spiritual formation and hospitality, and meeting weekly with the Worship Pastor for service coordination.
• Discipleship Pathway: Collaboratively fostering spiritual growth and maturity among members, and providing sermon notes for small group discussion guides.
• Community and Mission Outreach: Modeling and participating in community outreach and global mission initiatives to spread the gospel and make disciples.
• Mobilizing Service: Encouraging and mobilizing the church body to serve, join ministry teams, and support church ministries, facilitating discipleship and care among members.
• Healthy Team Focus: Cultivating a healthy ministry culture among both elder and staff teams, and modeling collaborative and encouraging leadership.
• Modeling Spiritual Maturity: Committing to personal spiritual growth and professional development through continuous learning, prayer, and study. Exemplifying servant leadership, humility, and ongoing spiritual growth, and helping the church fulfill its mission as a kingdom community.
• Cultural Impact: Modeling a healthy, Christ-centered culture, improving the church's cultural and theological depth, and cultivating an atmosphere of hospitality and Christ-centered worship.

Reporting Structure

• The Lead Teaching Pastor is accountable to and works as one among equals on the team of Elders.

Preferred Ministry Experience and Qualifications

• Bible Study and Exposition: Proficient in studying and expounding biblical texts.
• Pastoral Experience: At least ten years of pastoral experience, preferably in a multi-staff church.
• Vision Development and Communication: Demonstrated experience in developing and communicating a church vision.
• Team Building and Leadership Development: Proven ability to start and develop teams, and mentor emerging leaders.
• Ministry Organization: Track record of building and organizing ministry within a church context.
• Educational Background: Possession of a seminary Master's Degree or Doctoral Degree.
• Passionate Preacher and Communicator: Capable of teaching God's Word clearly, creatively, and concisely, effectively equipping the congregation. Able to clearly communicate the Gospel and biblical doctrine.
• Theological Proficiency: a student and guardian of biblical theology leading to sound orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

The Lead Teaching Pastor is a member of the Elder Team and as such, must meet the biblical qualifications of elders.

Personal Characteristics

• Disciple: Clear profession of faith in Christ, baptism by immersion, and love for His church and an ongoing testimony of being discipled by others.
• Passion for Ministry: Demonstrates a deep passion for the Gospel and ministry. Easily and openly shares his faith and is an example and encouragement to church members to do the same.
• Vision for Discipleship: Committed to equipping the church to be true disciples and disciple-makers of Christ.
• Spiritual Gifts: Possesses the spiritual gifts correlational to being a Pastor/Teacher.
• Family Relationships: Maintains a healthy, biblical relationship with family. Cherishes and cares for family according to God's Word.
• Role Model: Represents a Christ-like role model and is above reproach.
• Team Player: Collaborative and effective team player, able to bridge ministry areas.
• Servant Leader: Leads with a heart of service, bringing order and oversight to the church.
• Spiritual Maturity: Not a recent convert; maintains a disciplined spiritual life and sound doctrine that exemplifies the fruit of the Spirit while also the discipling of others.
• Spirit Led: Sensitive to, responsive to, and dependent on the work and leading of the Holy Spirit.
• Sober-minded: Lives a balanced life with a sound thought process, not easily overtaken by trends, theological curiosities or cultural pressures.
• Self-controlled: Exercises self-control in decisions, is patient and longsuffering with others.
• Humble: Exhibits genuine humility in interactions and mindset.
• Ethical and Holy: Upholds high moral standards, aligning decisions and actions with God's holiness.
• Disciplined: Lives with spiritual purpose and discipline.
• Financial Integrity: Not consumed with material goods, free from significant debt, and generous.
• Leadership: Servant-leader who motivates, establishes objectives, and executes plans with humility.
• Administrative Skills: Capable of managing administrative tasks associated with the position.
• Peacemaking: Works to unite diverse perspectives to advance the church's witness, biblical truth and God's glory.
• Developer of People: Naturally desires and possesses the ability to mentor, develop, and invest in the lives of others.

• • Salary: Determined Upon Hire (based on education/experience)
  • Full medical insurance provided (no cost to you)
  • Automatic 2% retirement match plus up to an additional 5%
  • Fitness reimbursement
  • Book/meal allowance