Now professionally, a Wesleyan minister should be able to:
Worship
- Identify the theological foundations of worship.
- Know the appropriate theological and practical functions of the various elements of worship such as scripture, sacrament, prayer, preaching, music, offering, creed, drama, digital media, contemplation and response.
- Design creative and culturally relevant worship that is sensitive to a church’s history, theology and local community.
- Recognize and appreciate the various approaches to worship in the past and in other denominations and cultures today.
- Design a worship experience that engages people in connecting with God personally and corporately.
- Be sensitive to the Spirit’s leading in the planning process and during worship so the experience becomes transformative.
- Recruit, equip, and supervise the various members of a worship team and coordinate the related resources to foster transformative worship.
- Establish and sustain redemptive relationships which lead persons to Christ and engage them in discipleship.
- Demonstrate a desire and practice of prayerful dependence on God and exhibit compassion for the lost which fosters a missional climate.
- Articulate the biblical and theological meaning of a Christ-centered salvation/conversion.
- Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of one’s local cultural contexts for purposes of evangelism and mission.
- Utilize various methods to share the gospel personally and publicly.
- Lead and manage a missional culture in the local church through empowering and equipping others.
- Demonstrate Christ-like character and pastoral sensibilities such as prayerfulness, authenticity, compassion, humility, respect of others, an attitude of service and the ability to persevere.
- Demonstrate the values and traits necessary for pastoral leadership such as personal discipline, spiritual maturity, creativity, inspiration, relationship skills, conflict resolution, and team building.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead people to share a strategic vision with concrete goals, enabling the congregation to move forward.
- Demonstrate sound management practices including planning, organizing, delegating and managing oneself.
- Recognize, mentor, and develop leaders, while also receiving mentorship and accountability from another.
- Identify and sequence the teaching of biblical and theological knowledge for the purpose of Christian formation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of Christian development and ability to apply pedagogical methods and delivery systems appropriate for each age.
- Assess potential teachers for the character and teaching ability necessary to lead others effectively in Christian formation and to personally model effective life-changing teaching ability.
- Recruit, equip and supervise discipleship leaders for all ages.
- Effectively apply biblical and theological knowledge for Christian formation across the life-span.
- Manage budgets, learning space, equipment and other resources for the Christian formation of the church.
- Preach with authenticity, self-awareness, humility and appropriate transparency.
- Plan sermons, sermon series, and church year preaching schedule.
- Engage in research for sermons that are theologically sound and address the needs of the congregation.
- Develop sound personal study habits for preaching.
- Write and deliver sermons aimed for life change, spiritual transformation and response.
- Develop theologically, exegetically and biblically sound sermons.
- Construct and deliver various sermon styles that are focused and clear.
- Deliver effective, articulate and engaging sermons using both verbal and non-verbal communication.
- Prayerfully seek and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the formation delivery of sermons.
- Form many and deep relationships, be a likable person, build inclusivity, sense the needs of others and create a caring environment.
- Perceive unhealthy conflict and broken relationships between oneself and another and between other parties and bring resolution and reconciliation where appropriate.
- Design, equip, empower, deploy and supervise the laity in a strategy for congregational caring.
- Design and maintain records of small groups, social media ministries, prayer systems, visitation and other caring interventions and use them to provide comprehensive care of people.
- Recall psychological and spiritual principles of human behavior, demonstrate basic counseling skills, and determine when to refer counseling to other professionals.
- Be visible and known within the community, cultivate relationships within the community and willing to respond to community needs where appropriate.
- The pastor should know the needs of the congregation, and local culture; the congregation should have the sense that the pastor truly knows them. “Congregational and Community EQ”
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of a particular community’s needs and visibly cultivate relationships within the community.
- Create a system for being aware of major life events and transitions such as marriage, birth, sickness, death, retirement, weddings, divorces, and other mileposts and has a strategy for responding with prayer and pastoral care.
- Demonstrate Christ-like character and pastoral sensibilities such as prayerfulness, authenticity, compassion, humility, respect of others, an attitude of service and the ability to persevere.
- Demonstrate the values and traits necessary for pastoral leadership such as personal discipline, spiritual maturity, creativity, inspiration, relationship skills, conflict resolution, and team building.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead people to share a strategic vision with concrete goals, enabling the congregation to move forward.
- Demonstrate sound management practices including planning, organizing, delegating and managing oneself.
- Recognize, mentor, and develop leaders, while also receiving mentorship and accountability from another.
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