Saturday, April 08, 2017

Recipe for a Wesleyan Minister 3

Here is the final set of competencies for a Wesleyan minister. These are the professional competencies. The first two sets were:
Now professionally, a Wesleyan minister should be able to:
Worship
  1. Identify the theological foundations of worship.
  2. 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.
  3. Design creative and culturally relevant worship that is sensitive to a church’s history, theology and local community.
  4. Recognize and appreciate the various approaches to worship in the past and in other denominations and cultures today.
  5. Design a worship experience that engages people in connecting with God personally and corporately.
  6. Be sensitive to the Spirit’s leading in the planning process and during worship so the experience becomes transformative.
  7. Recruit, equip, and supervise the various members of a worship team and coordinate the related resources to foster transformative worship.
Evangelism and Mission
  1. Establish and sustain redemptive relationships which lead persons to Christ and engage them in discipleship.
  2. Demonstrate a desire and practice of prayerful dependence on God and exhibit compassion for the lost which fosters a missional climate.
  3. Articulate the biblical and theological meaning of a Christ-centered salvation/conversion.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of one’s local cultural contexts for purposes of evangelism and mission.
  5. Utilize various methods to share the gospel personally and publicly.
  6. Lead and manage a missional culture in the local church through empowering and equipping others.
  7. 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.
  8. Demonstrate the values and traits necessary for pastoral leadership such as personal discipline, spiritual maturity, creativity, inspiration, relationship skills, conflict resolution, and team building.
  9. Demonstrate the ability to lead people to share a strategic vision with concrete goals, enabling the congregation to move forward.
  10. Demonstrate sound management practices including planning, organizing, delegating and managing oneself.
  11. Recognize, mentor, and develop leaders, while also receiving mentorship and accountability from another.
Christian Education
  1. Identify and sequence the teaching of biblical and theological knowledge for the purpose of Christian formation.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of Christian development and ability to apply pedagogical methods and delivery systems appropriate for each age.
  3. 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.
  4. Recruit, equip and supervise discipleship leaders for all ages.
  5. Effectively apply biblical and theological knowledge for Christian formation across the life-span.
  6. Manage budgets, learning space, equipment and other resources for the Christian formation of the church.
Preaching
  1. Preach with authenticity, self-awareness, humility and appropriate transparency.
  2. Plan sermons, sermon series, and church year preaching schedule.
  3. Engage in research for sermons that are theologically sound and address the needs of the congregation.
  4. Develop sound personal study habits for preaching.
  5. Write and deliver sermons aimed for life change, spiritual transformation and response.
  6. Develop theologically, exegetically and biblically sound sermons.
  7. Construct and deliver various sermon styles that are focused and clear.
  8. Deliver effective, articulate and engaging sermons using both verbal and non-verbal communication.
  9. Prayerfully seek and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the formation delivery of sermons.
Congregational Care and Relationships
  1. Form many and deep relationships, be a likable person, build inclusivity, sense the needs of others and create a caring environment.
  2. Perceive unhealthy conflict and broken relationships between oneself and another and between other parties and bring resolution and reconciliation where appropriate.
  3. Design, equip, empower, deploy and supervise the laity in a strategy for congregational caring.
  4. 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.
  5. Recall psychological and spiritual principles of human behavior, demonstrate basic counseling skills, and determine when to refer counseling to other professionals.
  6. Be visible and known within the community, cultivate relationships within the community and willing to respond to community needs where appropriate.
  7. 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”
  8. Demonstrate broad knowledge of a particular community’s needs and visibly cultivate relationships within the community.
  9. 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.
Leadership and Management
  1. 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.
  2. Demonstrate the values and traits necessary for pastoral leadership such as personal discipline, spiritual maturity, creativity, inspiration, relationship skills, conflict resolution, and team building.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to lead people to share a strategic vision with concrete goals, enabling the congregation to move forward.
  4. Demonstrate sound management practices including planning, organizing, delegating and managing oneself.
  5. Recognize, mentor, and develop leaders, while also receiving mentorship and accountability from another.

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