If you are part of a pastoral search committee, chances are, one of your primary goals is to call a pastor who will preach quality, biblical sermons. Churches looking for a pastor almost always list this as a central goal. Yet few of them agree with any precision as to what constitutes a quality sermon. And where a church is passionate about pursuing something, without agreeing on what that something is, it doesn’t take the wisdom of Solomon to see that a major disagreement is only one or two meetings away.
A search committee evaluating sermons without agreed-upon criteria would be like me being a judge for Olympic diving. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate Olympic diving. While I am not a diving expert, there are few Summer Olympic Games where I have not watched at least a portion of the competition. As a family, we often watch together and cheer on certain divers. My lack of technical expertise doesn’t stop me from enjoying the competition. Keep Reading>>>
