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Personal Spirituality
1. An intentional, daily devotional experience.
2. Demonstrate an intentional plan for spiritual growth.
Family Life
1. Average one day off each week.
2. Take a Sabbath away with family two or three times a year, in addition to vacation, to visit another church, pastoral family, or to simply get away.
3. Schedule time each day for interaction with your family in worship, recreation and meals.
4. Take annual vacations according to policy.
5. Recognize the influence of a supportive family as a significant impact in the success of ministry, even though members of the family are not responsible for ministry.
6. Enroll children in a Seventh-day Adventist denominational school. Other alternatives need consultation with Conference administration.
Personal and Professional Growth
1. Take a minimum of two CEU’s (20 hours) annually.
2. Devote several hours of study each month on material not specifically directed to sermon preparation.
3. Read a minimum of ten books each year. It is suggested that some Spirit of Prophecy books be included.
4. Participate in a local ministerium and, if possible, in a local area professional group.
5. Spend one-half hour in vigorous exercise at least three times a week. Demonstrate an integrated understanding of the health principles of the church.
Preaching/Worship
1. The proclamation of God’s Word, centered in Jesus Christ, should be the main focus.
2. Maintain doctrinal and hermeneutical soundness in all sermons.
3. Preach up-building rather than destructive or judgmental sermons, feeding the flock.
4. Deliver sermons in an interesting, creative and motivating manner.
5. Spend adequate study and preparation time each week to ensure an appropriate worship experience.
6. Plan a preaching schedule at least one quarter in advance with varied styles of sermons, meeting the congregation’s felt needs, and with the pastor preaching regularly.
7. Invite into the pulpit loyal, Seventh-day Adventist members known to be in regular standing. Exception is made for government officials who may, on special occasions, be invited. Other exceptions, or clarification, are handled in consultation with Conference administration.
Pastoral Services
1. Maintain a regular and systematic program of member visitation both by the pastor and through people who care and have skills to visit in homes.
2. Maintain scheduled and published office hours.
3. Provide spiritual counseling and/or referral for members’ crisis situations.
4. Be available for crisis situations at any time of the day; however, reasonable limitations must be maintained on routine matters to protect pastors and their family from inordinate intrusions into their private lives.
5. Develop a plan, in consultation with local church leadership, for reclaiming inactive members.
6. Process redemptive discipline following Church Manual guidelines.
7. Nurture youth involvement and assimilation in the church.
8. Maintain sensitivity to groups with special needs, e.g. elderly, disabled, single parents.
Church Growth
A personal involvement in soul winning will model a passion for people, not because of being paid for a job, but out of love for Christ.
1. Provide leadership toward church growth.
2. Involve members in spiritual gifts identification, equipping, training, organizing, and discipling, including an on-going program of personal Bible studies.
3. Provide some form of “sowing/reaping/discipling” cycle, which gives people the opportunity to accept Christ and join the Seventh-day Adventist Church, carried out perpetually in each church. The duration of the cycle is decided by the pastor and the local church.
4. Track Sabbath morning attendance giving special emphasis to keeping in touch with people rather than just numbers, watching the trends and understanding the reasons for significant changes.
5. Plan regular, baptismal Sabbaths as a focus of your evangelistic outreach.
6. Maintain a current, active interest list.
Administration
1. Lead the church in establishing short term and long-range objectives.
2. Plan a yearly calendar including boards, harvest focus, programs and other important events.
3. Lead the local church in establishing an annual budget.
4. Work in harmony with the actions of the local church board, school board, and the Conference Executive Committee. If any conflict arises, counsel with Conference administration is urged.
5. Maintain awareness of information contained in communications from the Conference, implementing the necessary items in an appropriate manner in the local church.
6. Report to the Conference through whatever systems of accountability is established. Insure that the clerk and treasurer’s reports are submitted in a timely manner.
7. Negotiate role expectations with local church board annually; utilize an evaluation process periodically.
Professional Ethics
1. Live in harmony with the fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
2. Be faithful in returning tithe. NAD Working Policy states: “Because of its importance as a principle and the spiritual experience it represents, tithing, like other basic beliefs and practices of the church, becomes a condition of employment for all credentialed/licensed employees.” -D 55 05
3. Avoid borrowing money from church members and/or accepting large gratuities from individual church members.
4. Be honest and fair in all business relationships.
5. In harmony with Biblical principles, be loyal, in word and action, to colleagues, leadership and the policies of the Seventh-day Adventist church at all levels. If problems arise, follow the Biblical and church-established conflict resolution procedures.
6. Attend the ministerial meetings called by Conference leadership.
7. Give full energy to the ministry. NAD Working Policy states: “Conference and institutional employees shall refrain from any side lines, or activity, either denominational or extra-denominational, which has the effect of diminishing their influence and/or infringing on the time and efficiency of the work to which they are assigned. –Y 06 06更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net