10 Questions Pastoral Search Committees Must Ask

TEN QUESTIONS PASTORAL SEARCH COMMITTEES MUST ASK The current theological climate presents a tremendous challenge for churches in search of a new pastor. Unfortunately, pastoral search committees are often unaware of some of today’s most pressing theological issues and so don’t know the questions that need to be asked of pastoral candidates to determine where they stand doctrinally. This list of ten theological questions is not intended to be exhaustive, but, rather, it should be an aid in the overall pastoral search process. The reason for posing simple yes or no questions is to make it earier to determine exactly what

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The Gospel of Roman Catholicism

IS THE REFORMATION REALLY OVER? The Gospel of Roman Catholicism In their 2005 book of the same title, Christian historians Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom posed the question “Is the Reformation over?” While acknowledging that doctrinal and practical differences between Catholics and evangelicals remain, they concluded that when it comes to the matter of justification by faith “…many Catholics and evangelicals now believe approximately the same thing.” Eleven years earlier, it was essentially this same conclusion that served as the fundamental premise of the 1994 ecumenical document “Evangelical and Catholics Together”: We affirm together that we are justified by grace

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