My Dream Job Description

Here is my dream job description. Pastor – Lord Of Life Lutheran Church Job Description “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” (Acts 20:28) We, the members of Lord of life Lutheran Church, Bixby, Oklahoma wish to call you into ministry with us as our pastor. Your main job responsibility will be to faithfully manage the public administration of God’s Word and sacraments here in this place. We expect you to specialize in and continue to learn about these things. You must know your theology because we want to learn from you. “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” (Romans 10: 14-15) We expect you to love us enough to care for us individually as needed. You are welcome in our homes and our personal lives. Please be there for us throughout all the special times of need that we will have. Minister God’s Word and sacraments to us often, especially when we need counseling, are sick, reach old age and finally pass on into eternity. Comfort those whom we have left behind and encourage them to have hope for their own eternity. Some of us may have special physical, mental and spiritual needs. Please make every effort to accommodate our spiritual growth. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” (1 Peter 1: 3 – 9) When we stray into evil and hurtful ways please shepherd us back on the right path. Pay close attention to us when drugs, alcohol and other substances are involved because we know we can easily believe they can’t harm us. Help us recognize and turn away from inappropriate relationships that are not good for us. Be especially mindful of relationships that cause us to follow a faith different from the one true faith. Show us how these strange beliefs can turn us away from God. “So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.” (1 Corinthians 5: 16 – 20) If some of us refuse to listen and willingly follow sinful ways, please make every effort to help us turn from our misdeeds and become restored into our fellowship, even if that means that you recommend the need for our body of believers to exclude us from the fellowship until we can come to restoration. “And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor. 5: 19b-21) Teach us how to properly use our sexuality in a God pleasing manner both in and out of marriage. Equip us with the skills we need in order to have good relationships with others especially the opposite sex. If and when the time comes for us to marry use God’s Word to prepare us to enter into that union that is God pleasing. After we are married help us to keep our union strong in the Lord. If needed, help us with the matters of divorce and remarriage. If He should so bless us with children, help us discover how to care for them before and after their birth. “Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (Gen. 2: 26-28) We all recognize that God has called us to serve Him through your divine calling. Help us find out what that special task is for each of us and then enlist us into that service. Equip us so that we will be able to accomplish the mission that God has given us. When we are fully equipped, empower us for ministry. Encourage us as we take on the tasks put before us and be there to help us evaluate our work so that we can do His mission better. “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’” (Matt. 28: 18 – 20) Finally we commit to you that we will serve with you joyfully and with respect. We will pay you a fair wage so that you will not have to be concerned for your physical needs. We will pray for you, speak well of you and completely support you in accomplishing the divine calling that God has given to you. “The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, ‘Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain,’ and ‘The worker deserves his wages.’ Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses.” (1 Tim 5: 17 – 19)