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Core Responsibilities

• Preach: Prepare and deliver a weekly sermon to the congregation. These messages should be Biblically sound, prayerfully prepared, and delivered in an appropriate manner that energizes the congregation. Advanced planning and communication of themes is preferred, and occasional guest speakers may be utilized.
• Ministry Staff Development: Lead, direct, and motivate the ministerial staff to fulfill the vision of Cicero Christian Church. Promote a culture of energy and excitement for this vision, not only among the ministerial staff, but also administrative staff and the congregation as a whole.
• Leadership Team Development: Intentional time with elders, individually and as a group, to build and maintain trust and stay in close communication.
• Vision Casting and Refreshing: Keep leaders and the church family focused forward, moving in the direction of becoming the church God established CCC to be.
• Community Partnerships: Intentional time with community leaders, people of influence, looking for opportunities to partner in community betterment and seeking to open doors for the gospel.
• Discipleship Development: Equip, train, and release men and women to be disciple makers who reproduce disciple makers.

Shared Responsibilities

• Pastoral: Visitation. Be available for calling on new and potential members; partner with elders and staff to visit the hospitalized and the homebound from the congregation on a case-by-case basis, particularly those not under the care of a Micro Church.
• Pre-Counseling: Be available for counseling on a limited basis and be prepared to offer referrals to other counseling opportunities, both within and outside the Church.
• Weddings/Marriage Preparation
• Funerals

Accountability

The Senior Pastor functions as an Elder and, like all other Elders and Staff, is accountable to the group of Elders who oversee the church. As is the case for all candidates for Eldership, in the first year, the Senior Pastor serves as an Apprenticing Elder and, after one year, is affirmed by the group of Elders and fully assumes the role of Elder.

Expectations

• Model the values of CCC:
  • Spirit-Led – seeking to grow in your awareness of and obedience to the work of the Holy Spirit in and through you.
  • Self-Fed – investing time in knowing who you are and who you are becoming as a child of God, thus learning to value what Jesus values.
  • Servant Leadership – leveraging your influence in God's Kingdom to serve others by taking time to discover and meet their needs.
  • Relational IQ – practicing healthy interpersonal communication and conflict management, and loving others by seeking to understand and encourage.
  • Courage – developing the vision for where we need to go and initiating steps in that direction while also embracing vulnerability and boldness.
• Embrace and encourage mutual accountability within the church family.
• Participate in or lead a micro church.
• Participate in or lead a discipleship group.
• Participate in “all hands on deck” outreach events.
• Spend, on average, 50 hours per week in ministry-related service.
• Take one spiritual retreat day per month.
• Take one 3-day spiritual retreat per year.