Pastor

Pre-trib Rapture, literal 1,000-year Millennium

We are committed to interpreting Scripture through a normal (plain-sense), historical-grammatical approach. We seek to honor God’s purposes in redemptive history without flattening the distinctions Scripture makes (including God’s promises to Israel and the church). This shapes our convictions about end-times doctrine: we hold a premillennial, pre-tribulation understanding, including Christ’s bodily return, the rapture (catching away) of the church, and His literal thousand-year reign on earth.

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• Have a strong prayer life preparing for service, sermons and studies.
• Devote time for sermon preparation and study of God’s word.
• Preach the truth from God’s word, give the gospel from the pulpit on Sunday mornings, stand for Christ in our community.
• Teach Sunday school if needed.
• Lead and teach Wednesday night Bible study.
• Give counsel to people when they need it.
• Minister to the youth, including teaching Instruction class.
• Perform weddings, including premarital counseling.
• Support church ministries, such as Vacation Bible School and other activities at our church.
• Perform funerals, hospital visitations, and visit shut-ins.
• Participate in church board meetings.
• Take care of incoming mail, emails, ministry related phone calls, etc.

• The applicant must be a man (1 Tim 2:12).
• A man called by God to the ministry.
• Previous pastoral experience is preferred, but not required.
• Married to one wife and has never been divorced (1 Tim 3:2).
• Truly loves his flock and will practice faithful service (1 Pet 5:2, Acts 20:28).

We are a healthy vibrant church and have been successfully carrying on our activities without a steady fulltime pastor for several years following the retirement of our long-term pastor. While things have been good; we clearly recognize the need for a full time pastor. For a year plus we have had a solid retired part-time pastor that preaches for us several times a month.

We have an active group of men that fill in with teaching, Sunday School, worship leadership, youth activities, bible studies, and congregational care and leadership.

A good future pastor fit for us would be someone who can keep the main focus on Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and build and encourage our families raising the next generations. We’re a non-denominational, believer’s baptism church. A good number of active young families make up the future of our church; many of these are part of multi-generational families that have attended our church for many years.

We are a rural church - relatively conservative. We have solid giving, no debt. We have strong alignment on core beliefs although we do have a mix of secondary theological backgrounds within our church - we are looking for a pastor that can maintain this blend and thrive in this environment. As an independent church we have different people at different places on some common theological topics.

People are respectful about these differences and we’re not looking for a pastor to bring dramatic shifts along denominational lines or to standardize everyone on secondary issues.

Our church is located in western Wisconsin near Viroqua. Our average attendance for Sunday morning worship is 50-60 people.

Salary $50,000 – $56,000, Workman Compensation Insurance, and Christian Health Sharing Medical Plan

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