How to Call a Pastor

Brothers, I want to give you brothers the opportunity to provide us some specific steps for how a church ought to or may call a pastor. The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit under the office of Bishop or elder in a church is that he be chosen there unto by the common suffrage of the church itself. We've already talked about that last episode. Joe's made reference to it this time. Well, they must have time and they must have opportunity to get to know him (Spurgeon) And so too, with all the matters on those two lists, they must be evident to an observable degree.