Senior Pastor​/Teacher

Position: Senior Pastor/Teacher in Central Ohio
Description:
Logos Bible Church (LBC) is a well-established, non-denominational church located in Pickerington, Ohio with a congregation of approximately 90 members and their families. After 41 years of faithful service and leadership, the current Senior Pastor-Teacher is stepping back to allow a new Senior Pastor-Teacher to serve and lead the congregation. LBC is seeking a long-term, full-time Senior Pastor-Teacher to shepherd and lead LBC who recognizes the role of a Pastor-Teacher as a calling rather than a job or occupation.

Compensation and Benefits:
Total Compensation: $80,/year
Benefits: Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance assistance, Retirement Plan, Paid Time Off, professional development/ continuing education, others to be negotiated
Relocation Assistance: Yes

Candidate Requirements:
A potential candidate for Pastor-Teacher shall:

• Subscribe in writing that he wholly accepts and wholly believes the Doctrinal Statement and that he wholly accepts the Constitution of LBC.
• Through his past experience, his written and oral testimony, and his pulpit presentation, show evidence of
• His commitment and fidelity to the emphasis at lbc on expository teaching and preaching of the entire Word of God
• His calling as guardian, student, and communicator of the whole counsel of God, both in principle and in pulpit practice
• Desire to stay at LBC “long term” (5+ Years).
• Be supportive of Music/Worship Ministry, Children’s/Preparatory School, Youth Ministry, and Outreach ministries.
• Have administration skills to organize and plan for church short- and long-term needs.

Duties:
The duties of the Pastor-Teacher shall be to

• Watch over the spiritual life of LBC
• Teach the Word of God
• Administer the ordinances
• Help establish policy for LBC to advance these ends in accordance with scriptural principles
• Provide for the supply of the Pulpit, in collaboration with the Deacons, when the Pastor-Teacher is absent or incapacitated and in the event of a vacancy in the office of Pastor-Teacher
• The Pastor-Teacher, as an Elder called to a special purpose with regard to administrating, teaching the Word of God, and shepherding God’s people, shall additionally
• Be responsible for the general oversight of the spiritual welfare of LBC
• Function as chief executive officer of LBC and be a voting ex officio member of all Organizations, Boards, and Committees of LBC
• The length, number, and content of all services of LBC shall take into account the needs and circumstances of the Members and the Pastor-Teacher
• The Pastor-Teacher shall be the final authority in determining the content of all services.
• The Pastor-Teacher shall recommend to the Board, the length and number of regularly scheduled services. The board shall vote to approve the recommendation.

LBC Background:
The congregation started with the assembling of approximately five families in 1984 that wanted a church where the emphasis would be on the teaching of the Bible. The church originally met in the Groveport Town Hall and then in the Obetz Senior Center until acquiring an actual “church building” in Reynoldsburg, Ohio in 1989. As the congregation grew, property was purchased in Pickerington, Ohio and the congregation moved to the current location when the church building construction was completed in 2002.

LBC is and shall ever be committed, not simply in principle, but in practice, to emphasizing from its pulpit the expository, verse-by-verse, teaching and preaching of the entire Bible. This commitment does not preclude textual, topical, or categorical teachings. The pulpit of LBC shall be a place where the teachings are from the Word, not merely about the Word. There are traditionally three, one-hour services per week – Sunday 9:30am, Sunday 11:00am, and Wednesday 7:00pm, each covering a different portion of scripture.

LBC has several internal and external ministries including but not limited to: Preparatory school for PreK-12 youth, music, annual Vacation Bible School, camps and retreats, prison and other outreach ministries, Operation Christmas Child, small group Bible studies, Pickerington “Christmas on the Town”, and other community outreach programs and events.

We Believe:

• The Bible (Bibliology)
  • The Bible, which comprises the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, is the verbally and wholly inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original documents.
  • The Bible is the final authority in all matters of our faith and practices.
  • The apocryphal books are not canonical.
• Hermeneutics
  • The Bible is to be interpreted normally; that is, it is to be taken literally when possible and figuratively when necessary.
  • When a passage in the Bible is figurative, the underlying meaning of the figure is literal.
• Dispensations
  • God has administered, does administer, and will continue to administer His purpose on the earth through various dispensations.
  • There are at least four chronologically successive dispensations revealed in the Bible, namely
  • The dispensation of the Gentiles
  • The dispensation of the Jews
  • The present dispensation of the Church
  • The future…