To Our Pastoral Search Committee & The Body of Christ of FBCE

In my reading, I found this article. I believe it addresses what our search committee will be doing in the future. As you will notice, it never says anything about the spiritual, personal, or physical qualities of various candidates. It focuses on finding God's Will. This is where the search committee and the Body of Christ - His Church begins and ends. 

Think about it and let us seek God's Will. May God Bless You!

Finding God's Will Together by  Ruth Haley Barton
Christianity Today - Fall 2012

Discernment is the capacity to recognize the presence and activity of God. Paul says that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds so that we can discern what the will of God is, that which is good, acceptable, and perfect (Rom 12:2). Corporate discernment, then, is responding to the activity of God as a leadership group and to make decisions in response to His Presence.

The heart of the discernment process is listening—

• to God
• the movement of the Holy Spirit
• the Scripture 
• to each other
• to what's going on in the depths of our own souls
• that place in us where God's Spirit witnesses with our spirit about those things that are true