Senior Pastor-Teacher

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: $80,000-115,000/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: 

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

Formal seminary training and language training are preferred (not required). 

Experience: Teaching, leading, participating in a local church are preferred. 

Duties: 

The duties of the Pastor-Teacher shall be to 

1. Watch over the spiritual life of LBC 
2. Teach the Word of God 
3. Administer the ordinances 
4. Help establish policy for LBC to advance these ends in accordance with scriptural principles 
5. 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 

1. Be responsible for the general oversight of the spiritual welfare of LBC 
2. Function as chief executive officer of LBC and be a voting ex officio member of all Organizations, Boards, and Committees of LBC 
3. 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: 

1. 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. 

2. 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.

3. 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 

1. The dispensation of the Gentiles 
2. The dispensation of the Jews 
3. The present dispensation of the Church 
4. The future dispensation of the Millennial Kingdom 

4. Doctrine 

• There is value in collecting, organizing, and cataloging Bible doctrine. 
• Bible doctrine represents God’s viewpoint. 
• Doctrine is “something that is taught,” being propositional and conveying objective meaning and objective truth. 
• Doctrine is to be made clear in Bible passages as they are taught. 
• Each doctrine should be correlated with all other Bible doctrines. 

5. The Triune God (Trinitarianism and Theology Proper) 

• There is one God, eternally existing in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 
• The Three are, identical in nature and attributes, and equal in power and glory. 

6. God the Father (Patrology) 

• God the Father plans, supervises, and works all things after the counsel of His will. 
• He is the source of the believer's provision. 

7. God the Son (Christology) 

• The Son became true man without ceasing to be true God. 
• In the Son’s Incarnation perfect humanity and undiminished deity were united in one Person forever, without confusion of the divine and human natures. 
• In the Son’s Incarnation, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. 
• The Son was called Jesus Christ, was crucified as a substitutionary, atoning, propitiating, and expiating sacrifice, was buried, was physically resurrected from the dead, and was seen alive by many. 
• The Son physically ascended from the earth. 
• The Son now sits in His glorified body at the right hand of the Father as Intercessor, Advocate, and High Priest for His people. 
• The Son will return physically to the earth.  Refer to section 14 – Prophesy (Eschatology). 

8. God the Holy Spirit (Pneumatology) 

• The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. 
• The Holy Spirit regenerates those who accept His witness and, at their salvation, He  

1. Baptizes them into the body of Christ 
2. Permanently indwells them and seals them to the day of redemption 
3. Sanctifies, comforts, encourages, and leads them through life 
4. Fills them when they are without known unconfessed sin in their lives 
5. Gives at least one spiritual gift as a manifestation of the Spirit and for the common good and edification of the Church. 

• The gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongues, miracles, healing, apostleship, and prophecy (in the sense of receiving new revelation) ended in the first century a.d., but God Himself still heals sicknesses and performs miracles in accordance with His own sovereign will and the prayers of His children. 

9. Angels (Angelology, Satanology, and Demonology) 

• The angels are beings created by God. 
• The angels have been, since the fall of Satan, divided into two categories—unfallen and fallen. 
• Satan is a real being and is leader of the fallen angels. 
• A great conflict presently rages between the fallen angels, led by Satan, and the unfallen angels, led by Michael the Archangel.  The knowledge of this conflict serves as a necessary interpretive key to the Bible and human history. 
• Angels do not procreate. 
• Humans do not become angels. 
• No angel was ever a human. 

10. Man (Anthropology) 

• Adam and Eve were actual historical figures. 
• Man was created sinless, in the image and likeness of God. 
• Through Adam's sin, the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God, receiving the just condemnation of physical and spiritual deaths in time, and eternal separation from God in eternity. 
• Man remains totally unable to save himself from this condemnation, and only the saving work of God Himself through Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection from the grave can save him. 

11. Sin (Hamartiology) 

• We believe that man is under the triple curse of 

1. Imputed sin—the judicial share in responsibility for Adam's original sin 
2. Inherent sin—the inherent capacity and desire to sin 
3. Personal sin—volitional decisions to commit acts of sin 

12. Salvation (Soteriology) 

• The substitutionary work of Christ is unlimited in scope, sufficient for all but efficient to only those who believe. 
• Every individual is free to accept or reject Christ’s work on his or her behalf. 
• Salvation is obtained solely and simply by accepting, by faith, the work of Christ on one’s behalf. 
• Salvation can never be lost. 

13. The Church (Ecclesiology) 

• The Universal Church consists of all born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in the dispensation of the Church. 
• Each local church is a visible, partial manifestation of the Universal Church. 
• It is the responsibility of the local church to devote itself to biblical teaching, to fellowship, to prayer, to the exercise of spiritual gifts, and to the observance of the ordinances of Baptism by immersion and Communion. 
• The Church neither replaces national Israel nor spiritually inherits the earthly promises that God made to that nation. 

14. Prophecy (Eschatology) 

• No prophetic events are required to occur before the return of Jesus Christ. 
• The return of Jesus Christ will occur in a personal, bodily manner, pretribulational, as He arrives in the air to receive His Church to Himself—namely, all who have believed in Him since the Pentecost following His ascension. 
• Those who have died in Christ before this event, the Rapture, will be resurrected, and both theirs and living believers’ bodies will be changed into imperishable bodies. 
• The Lord Jesus and his saints will physically return to the earth for the second time at the end of the Tribulation to establish His Millennial kingdom in Jerusalem over all the earth. 
• At that time, all the nations of the earth will be subject to Jesus Christ’s government in national Israel as the head of the nations, and there will be universal, worldwide peace. 
• Afterwards, in the eternal state, those from all ages who have trusted Christ as personal Savior will live bodily in complete happiness with Him forever and ever. 
• Likewise, those who have not trusted Christ as personal Savior will exist bodily in conscious punishment in the Lake of Fire forever and ever. 

15. The Christian Life 

• All Christians are called to conduct their lives in godliness. Christians are saved for the purpose of performing good works. 
• The Adamic nature is not eradicated in this life, and, therefore, Christians are called to live by the power of the Holy Spirit so as not to fulfill the desires of the Adamic nature. 
• The conduct of Christians should be characterized by love for God and love for their neighbors, especially for fellow Christians. 
• For believers, forgiveness and restoration of fellowship with God is based on the sacrifice of Christ and conditional merely on confession before God of the offending sin. 
• Persistence in sin can lead to divine discipline. 
• In addition to the freely bestowed benefits of salvation, believers can earn eternal rewards through faithful obedience to the Word of God. 
• A believer’s deeds that are unworthy of the Lord will result in loss of potential rewards for the believer but not in loss of salvation. 
• It is the Christian’s privilege and duty to participate in the Great Commission to spread the gospel, making disciples of every nation, baptizing them, and teaching them what Christ taught both in His earthly life and through His apostles. 

About the Area: 

Pickerington is a rural suburb located about 20 minutes southeast of Columbus, Ohio with a population of approximately 25,000 people.  The city has seen steady growth with new homes being built.  The school district is recognized as a top performing district and is continuing to add additional buildings.  The downtown area is walkable and new small businesses are continuing to open in the area.  The Pickerington parks system offers many trails and seasonal events.  Columbus is one of the fastest growing cities in the US.  Traveling to/from Columbus is convenient with the John Glenn Columbus International Airport and easy access to both I-70 and I-71 placing many major cities in other states within reasonable driving distance of the area.