Lead Teaching Pastor

Cornerstone Christian Fellowship

Lewisburg, PA  17837

 Lead Teaching Pastor Position

Job Description

DESCRIPTION:

• The Lead Pastor will be the spiritual leader with the primary responsibility of preaching and teaching the Word of God under the leadership and anointing of the Holy Spirit- “…to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ…” Ephesians 4:12 – 13. Also, to provide vision, spiritual instruction, and leadership to the church as God would lead and direct, working as a team with fellow teaching pastors, the church board, and congregants to see the vision to fruition. Further responsibilities will be delegated by the church board as seen fit with spiritual gifting.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A clear testimony of faith in Jesus Christ.
• A consistent spiritual and moral character and lifestyle, fulfilling the biblical leadership qualities of an overseer as described in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9.
• Agreement with the statement of faith and by-laws of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship.
• Competent in Holy Spirit led Biblical preaching and teaching.
• History of faithful ministry experience.
• Love for people who are lost and hurting and need Jesus.
• Adequate education and skills relevant to this position.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Pastoral Duties

1. Preaching the word of God as scheduled on Sunday mornings and other appointed times with clear, engaging, God honoring, gospel centered, biblically based sermons with relevant application to all age groups.
2. Providing general leadership and oversight along with the other teaching pastors, of the Sunday services or other regularly scheduled services, including coordination of those leading worship, sound, video, adult education, children’s ministries, and any other ministries.
3. Administer ceremonies of the church such as communion, baptisms, baby dedications, new members, etc.
4. Provide general Pastoral care and nurturing along with other teaching pastors, visitation pastor, and lay ministry team, visiting congregants who may be sick or in the hospital, visiting in their homes as needed, and reaching out to new visitors with humility, compassion, wisdom, honesty, and unity as a servant leader.
5. Provide short term counseling, prayer, pre-marital counseling, conflict resolution, and spiritual direction to those in need within the congregation.

• Leadership and Spiritual Growth

1. Model a life dependent upon the presence of God and leadership of the Holy Spirit.
2. Maintain a strong devotional life of prayer and personal study of God’s word resulting in a deepening relationship with Christ and the Holy Spirit.
3. Provide vision, leadership, and passionate devotion to Christ and the church while demonstrating a humble servant’s heart and attitude.
4. Team with the church board, and other teaching pastors, in exercising spiritual oversight and nourishment of the church.
5. Work with leadership and congregants to organize and develop ministries, service opportunities, and outreach opportunities to reach Lewisburg and the surrounding communities and provide leadership to these ministry teams as assigned by the board.
6. Function as the primary contacts and coordinators for our local benevolence ministry.

• Management Duties

1. Supervise any assigned pastoral staff.
2. Supervise any assigned administrative staff.
3. Oversee any assigned ministry teams.

• Missions

1. From its inception, CCF has had a concerted focus on supporting ministries and missionaries both close to home and worldwide. Working through, and with the church board, encourage the congregation to continue reaching the world for Jesus Christ, both within, and beyond the Lewisburg community.

• Accountability

1. Accountable to the congregation through the church board.
2. Work with the church board, as a team, and be accountable to each other, other teaching pastors, and the congregation.
3. All pastors, the church board, and all staff are foremost accountable to God in all we do.
4. This job description may change over time to adapt to the changes occurring in the church and with its staff. This may be reviewed annually or bi-annually as needed.
5. Regular working days and hours will be determined jointly with the church board.

Please email your resume, a photograph of you and your family, letter of interest, and a link of your sermons to kathy@cornerstone-ccf.org.

VISION STATEMENT

Acts 2: 42-47

We feel called to be an Acts2 church, focusing on the basics of our faith that Christ so blessed in the early church.  Because of their active and participatory faith lived out every day, the ‘world’ saw something that they lacked and needed.  Others became hungry to ‘have what they have’ and came to faith in Christ and fellowship with the new believers.  This group of believers, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, focused on eight essential practices as seen in this scripture passage.

1. They loved the teaching of the Word. We want to be a fellowship that loves the Word of God, that focuses on the teaching of the Word and on living out the principles of the Bible.  We believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God and the greatest guidebook for life ever written. 

2. They loved the fellowship of believers. We want to further experience the love for one another that Jesus talked about when he gave the new commandment to ‘love one another as I have loved you.’  In a world of impersonal and uncaring people the church is called to stand out like a beacon because of our love for one another.  And we want this love to be shown by a loving and fun fellowship (think potluck dinners, holiday get-togethers, etc.) as well as a sacrificial sharing of our time, our means, our work and caring when one of the body is in need.

3. They were a people of prayer. Nothing is accomplished for God without prayer.  Just as Jesus needed to pray often, we want to be a fellowship that focuses on both individual and corporate prayer.  We want prayer to be an important part of our services where people can share their needs and joys, where the alter is an important place to bring our burdens, where it is not unusual for the body to gather around a needy person or family, lay hands on them and lift them to the Lord in corporate prayer.  We want our small groups and individuals to be encouraged to be in prayer as a lifestyle.

4. They shared the sacraments regularly. We want to experience communion and baptism regularly, and to make certain that they never become commonplace or routine.

5. They loved to praise and worship. We want to be a fellowship that focuses on meaningful and exuberant praise and worship of our Savior.  We want our worship to focus on Jesus, to be from the heart, to never be a performance, to be guided by the Holy Spirit and not become routine. We want to feature a variety of music from the great old hymns to the new praise and worship music, and everything in between. 

6. They were a fellowship who was unified. We want to create and foster a strong sense of Biblical unity among the fellowship of believers.  We believe in the need to be transparent in our dealings with one another, and our motto is certainly in support of that.  “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all else, love.”  Satan would love nothing better than to create disharmony among the believers and we are committed through prayer, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, through sound Biblical principles and just plain hard work to maintaining the unity of the Spirit among our fellowship.

7. They were under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Having just experienced Pentecost, this group of believers was fully committed to the leadership and the presence of the Holy Spirit.  We want that same anointing and leading to be the constant in our fellowship.  We want to foster sensitivity to the Holy Spirit’s leading in everything we do, including our services.  We do not want to get tied to a program or script to where the Holy Spirit would not ever be able to direct in the way He wants us to go.

8. They reached out to the non-believers in their community and won them to Christ. We want to impact our community for Jesus and help others come to know Him.  We believe that many of the previously mentioned elements of our fellowship will create a longing in non-believers to share in the love, unity, worship, etc. but there must also be a focus on reaching these people and introducing them to Cornerstone and to Jesus.

OTHER IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF OUR FELLOWSHIP:

• We want to be a fellowship that ministers to the entire family and fosters Christian family values. This includes everyone from children to the seniors who have contributed so much to our Christian heritage.  We encourage the development of sound programs for each age bracket that will teach the Word, foster fun and fellowship and provide opportunities to invite their friends and family who are not attending church.  We feel it’s important for the family to worship together--kids, teens parents, seniors—and to be a part of the praise and worship services and experience the fellowship of other believers and what it means to be a part of the family of God.

• We value an interactive, participatory style of worship. This includes testimonies of God’s working in our lives that encourage others, sharing of prayer requests, Bible study that allows for discussion and comment, prayer times where we gather to lay hands on and pray for the needy, prayer at the altar, etc.  This interactivity and interaction is a vital part of our persona to date and greatly valued by our people, however we are also aware that growth could influence some of these.

• In addition to our Statement of Faith, we believe in the Wesleyan/Armenian doctrinal position. We do not espouse the Calvinist doctrine nor want to become a Pentecostal-type church that emphasizes speaking in tongues.   Additionally, we have no desire to be a part of the emergent church movement.

• We share a belief that most, if not all, ministry positions should be voluntary and come from an anointed and gifted congregation. Certainly, should the congregation grow to a size that requires paid staff we would consider that, but at the moment we feel that God gifts and calls lay people to serve Him in a variety of areas.

• We believe in local and foreign missions, including ministry to Israel, as encouraged in the Bible. To that end we tithe our tithe and use that money for reaching and meeting the needs of hurting people locally and around the world as well as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

• We believe that communication is critical to involving and engaging the fellowship, fostering unity and community among believers and to reaching our community for Christ. To that end we want a dynamic web site, and we encourage the use of Facebook and email to make sure our messages are getting to everyone in our sphere of influence and that they, in turn, have a means of communicating back to us.

August 1, 2011

OUR MISSION

Cornerstone Christian Fellowship exists to love God, love people, and change the world. 

HOW DOES CORNERSTONE ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION.

“Let us hold firmly to the hope that we have confessed because we can trust God to do what he promised.  Let us think about each other and help each other to show love and do good deeds.  You should not stay away from the church meetings as some are doing but you should meet together and encourage each other.  Do this even more as you see the day coming.  – Hebrews 10:23-25

1. WEEKEND EXPERIENCE  
   • Creating environments where everyone feels welcomed and at home.  
   • Providing a safe and fun place for children.
   • Celebratory Worship (Psalm 122:1)
   • Presenting the Word of God in a practical way.

2. SHARING CHRIST WITH OUR COMMUNITY

Named Cornerstone Christian Fellowship for two reasons.  One Jesus is the Cornerstone of life with God and the filling of the Spirit.  Two, we believe the church should be a gathering so loving it compels the community to desire to belong to Jesus.   We don’t exist to stay within our four walls but believe we should take the message of Christ to our local communities and the world. 

3. WE ACHIEVE THIS THROUGH
   • GLOBAL MISSIONS 
   • LOCAL OUTREACH
   • BY GOING 

The last thing Jesus said to the disciples was “go into all the world and preach the gospel.”  We are called to tell others the good news of Christ.  We can accomplish this by telling them what God has done in our lives, inviting our friends and families to church, and serving others.  We want to make it hard for people in our community to go to hell by making it easy for them to come to church. Mark 16:15, Romans 10:13-1

• BY INVITING 
• BY INVESTING IN & ATTENDING CORNERSTONE FAITHFULLY 
• BY LEARNING TO TELL MY STORY & SHARE MY FAITH

STATEMENT OF FAITH

Our Purpose                     Our Guiding Principles

Exalt Jesus                         In Essentials: Unity

Edify One Another                In Non-essentials: Liberty

Embrace the Lost                  In All Things: Love

The purposes of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship are to encourage believers to develop a close personal love relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, (Matt. 22:37 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind!); to actively demonstrate and practice the love of Jesus with our fellow believers, (John 13:34 a new commandment I give to you to love one another even as I have loved you!); and to extend that Godly love to the members of our community who do not yet know Jesus.

GOD

There is but one true God.  In the Unity of this Godhead there are three persons equal in power and eternity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Gen. 1:1-2: Deut. 6:4-5; Matt. 28:19; John 1:1-3, 3:16)

Jesus Christ 

He is God incarnate, yet human, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. He was both God and Man. He came as a sinless sacrifice to save us from our sins and transgressions. He suffered, was crucified, died, and was buried, and on the third day AROSE, victorious over death. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, interceding on our behalf. We believe he will return to earth personally and visibly according to his promise. (Matt 1:20-22; Luke 1:26-35; John 1:14; Acts 1:9-11)

 Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Trinity. We believe that the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ in all that He does. He convicts us of our sin. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into the union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. We believe in being filled with the Holy Spirit, who witnesses to our spirit, and indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service. This is the consecration or sanctification of the believer. His instrument is the Word of God. (Matt 28:19; John 14:15-17, 16:7-8 & 13- 15; Acts 15:8-9; Romans 9:2-11; 2 Peter 1:21)

Bible

We believe the Holy Bible is the Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, infallible and complete in its entirety and our final authority for faith and life. (2 Timothy 3:14-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21)

Christ's Sacrifice

The shed blood of Jesus Christ offered the perfect and ultimate sacrifice for the sins of the world. No other satisfaction for sin is necessary; no other can atone. (John 3:16; Romans 5:8-11; Heb. 9:11-14)

Salvation

We believe that all are born sinners and the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin. The Lord Jesus Christ paid the price for sin by shedding His precious Blood on the Cross as atonement for sin. Those who refuse to accept His sacrifice for their sin are eternally lost while those who repent of their sins and personally accept and confess the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior receive forgiveness of sin, everlasting life, and become children of God. (Romans 3:23-25, 8:15; John 1:12-13, 3:16-17; 2 Cor. 5:17; 1 Peter 1:23)

The Church

We believe in the Church as the eternal and universal Body of Christ, consisting of all those who have accepted the work of the atonement. We believe in the need for a local assembly of believers for the purpose of worship, edification and evangelism through missions to our local communities and around the world. (Acts 2:42-47, Eph. 4:1-6, 5:22-27; Titus 2:14; Rev. 21:2-9)

Baptism

Baptism, by immersion in water, is the believer's outward expression of obedience and signifies their faith and acceptance of Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. (Matt. 3:13-21, 28:18-20; Mark1:9-11; John 3:5; Acts 10:47-48; Romans 6:1-4)

The Lord's Supper

The Lord's Supper is a sacrament signifying our redemption by Christ's death. The bread is representative of Christ's body which was broken for us. The cup represents Christ's blood that was shed for our sins. These sacraments should only be taken by those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. (Matt. 26:26-29; John 6:53-58: 1Cor. 10:16, 11:20-32)

9/1/2010

Cornerstone Christian Fellowship is a Non-Denominational Church.

Website: Cornerstone-ccf.org