PSC Covenant

With the semester winding down, I hope to pick up the blogging pace a bit. We've had some various things occur with our Pastor Search Committee and I'd love to get some feedback. But tonight I'll simply post our Pastor Search Committee Covenant. The idea of a covenant is to nail down some expectations for the committee and for the church. We hammered these out over our first several meetings and then we read them to the church:

Pastor Search Committee Covenant

Lakeview Baptist Church

This covenant commits the Lakeview Baptist Church Pastor Search Committee as partners together to bring God’s man to our pulpit. We merely serve as the representatives of the Lakeview congregation in this process.

We covenant first to keep all of our thinking and reflecting bathed in prayer. Because this is God’s church, not our church, we will seek God’s man, not our man. We will be obedient to God’s direction, and sensitive to the Holy Spirit, knowing that God looks not at a man’s outward appearance, but upon his heart. The only way we can stay attuned to our Lord’s direction is through ongoing, persistent, prayer.

We will act as a unified body. We will wait as one body and we will move as one body. We trust that God will reveal His will to us in His own time. We will not tarry unnecessarily, but we also will not hurry through this process. We will make a unanimous recommendation of God’s man to the church.

We recognize that openness is the key to trust. As such, we will communicate clearly and often with the church body. Communication of course is a two-part effort that involves listening as much as it involves speaking. Our goal will be to listen to the Lord as well as to the congregation as we undertake this search process.

Lastly we understand well the importance of confidentiality. We are dealing with the very heart of this church as we search for our next pastor. But we are also dealing with men of God in other places of ministry. We want to honor and respect even those whom we do not call. In order to maintain confidentiality and sober judgment, we will not individually speak about where we are in the search process or about any specific candidates outside of our pastoral search committee meetings except during public discussions with the church.

These things we covenant with God, with the congregation, and with one another.

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