Key Roles:
Lead Teaching Pastor. The Lead Pastor is responsible for embodying and thoughtfully teaching sound doctrine that engages our cultural moment (“rule of faith”), as well as our framework for spiritual formation (“rule of life”).
Chief Shepherd. The Lead Pastor shepherds the church and staff through a ministry of relational presence- being fully present to God, himself, and others. Given the limitations of a church our size, this will mostly mean equipping leaders and creating good care systems that allow community members to care for one another.
Leader Among Leaders. The Lead Pastor is appointed by the Elders & Board of Directors as the senior organizational leader. He is responsible for initiating the discernment of a Spirit-prompted theological vision and working collaboratively with other leaders to cultivate health, maturity, and flourishing for our church and world.
Developer of Others. The Lead Pastor holistically develops and coaches other leaders in order to enrich their calling, character, gifts, and ministry leadership to serve the broader church community.
Qualifications:
Strong leadership, communication, and relational skills.
A contemplative presence who slows down to lead from loving union with God.
Formal theological education: masters degree in theology or equivalent 8+years of local church pastoral experience.
Deep understanding of biblical theology, spiritual formation, organizational leadership, and Western cultural trends.
To view our Lead Pastor Profile and find out more about Soma, please visit www.somamidtown.com/employment.
Soma Midtown Distinctives:
We are a church that is intentionally architected around spiritual formation and practicing the way of Jesus. We have designed a community rule of life and discipleship pathway aimed at helping people learn to follow Jesus and through the power of the Holy Spirit be formed into mature disciples of Christlike love.
We are a neighborhood church that prioritizes relational presence over consumeristic platforms, programs, and power. We believe the church is a spiritual family, and so we have curated a rich ecosystem of community - Sunday gatherings, missional communities, discipleship groups, dinner tables - so that people can learn to share life together with Jesus.
We are a missional church seeking the holistic flourishing of Indianapolis. We strive to be a faithful presence that bears witness to God’s kingdom in the city with the courage and compassionate love of Jesus.
We seek to become God's beloved multicultural family by bridging historic racial, cultural, economic, generational, and political barriers through spiritual practices like justice, mercy, and reconciliation.
We are a church planting church with a passion for incubating and multiplying new congregations in our city and beyond.
We teach the Scriptures with the goal of whole-life integration. Our teaching is biblical, thoughtful, interdisciplinary, historically rooted, culturally responsive, and formation oriented.
We are a theologically diverse nondenominational community rooted in Christian orthodoxy as articulated in the ancient creeds while also synthesizing several other streams in the Great Tradition: Reformed, charismatic, baptistic, contemplative, social justice, liturgical, complementarian (male elders with women leaders + preachers), and a commitment to a historic sexual ethic.