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Senior Pastor Job Description:

EDUCATION: The successful candidate will have seminary training with a Masters of Divinity preferred.

EXPERIENCE: Experience of at least six years of professional pastoral experience is preferred. Experience serving in a church with multiple pastoral staff members is preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate will assume a range of responsibilities in the following areas, including, but not limited to:

1. Leadership/Discipleship

The successful candidate will train and empower staff and lay leaders to lead in their ministry-respective areas. Have a discipleship and spiritual growth focus within the church so church members are empowered to reach out individually to the unchurched in the area.

• Equip the saints for the work of the ministry.

• Lead and demonstrate effective ways to witness.

• Lead the body in effective programs to carry out the Great Commission.

• Ensure members of the body unable to attend services are visited and ministered to.

2. Preaching

The church desires a dynamic preacher who presents in God’s Word at an intermediate level and applies Biblical teaching to real-world applications the members of the body are facing individually and collectively.

• Plan, coordinate, and/or conduct regular services involving worship, sermons, and observances of ordinances.

• Provide or arrange for Biblical counseling, weddings and funerals.

3. Administration

Work with church officers, deacons, and the various committees to carry out the mission and

purpose of LABC.

• Oversee Associate Pastors (currently 4)

• Oversee office staff.

• Oversee, along with the Deacons, issues dealing with conflict or discipline.

• Clearly and effectively communicate with the body through various means.

• Have a working familiarity with the application of technology to the advancement of ministry.

• Coordinate with associational and state leadership.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated, and continue to demonstrate, the fruits of the Spirit as found in Galatians 5:22-26 as well as the requirements of overseers as found in 1 Timothy 3:1-7.

As a condition of employment at Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church, for any and all positions of employment, each employee agrees to abide by the Constitution and Bylaws of Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church. Each employee is required and expected to be a member in good standing of Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church. The employee also agrees to abide by and follow all guidelines of the most current, approved revision of the Employee Handbook. The standards of conduct contained in both documents are expected to be strictly followed, especially the code of Biblical Christian conduct.

Employees are expected to act in a manner consistent with the mission and values of the church.