Our congregation has been without a pastor for a few months. We've been conducting small group listening sessions to determine what the congregation thinks we need regarding a new pastor. I've led two of these groups. This information will be put into a PCUSA Church Information Form as the first step in matching a pastor with our congregation.
After two listening sessions and hearing what is going on in other groups, I've already been able to synthesize the new pastor's job description:
The perfect pastor preaches exactly ten minutes. He condemns sin, but never hurts anybody's feelings. He works from eight in the morning until midnight and is also the church janitor. He is twenty-nine years old and has forty years experience. He makes fifteen house calls a day and is always in the office. (This actually comes from Jan Karon's These High, Green Hills, p. 37)
Any other qualifications you would add?
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