PERSONAL

1. How did you become a Christian?

2. How do you regularly pursue communion with God? How are you
strengthening and growing your relationship with the Lord? Describe your
day-to-day spiritual life. How do you get spiritually refreshed? How are you
strengthening and growing your relationship with the Lord?
3. Tell us about your family. How does your wife feel about being a pastor’s wife?
What are your children like?
4. Describe your call to the ministry and what motivates you to stay in ministry.
5. List your hobbies and any other areas of interest apart from ministry. What do
you do to maintain your health?
What do you do for fun?
6. What role does personal evangelism play in your life?
7. How has God humbled you?
8. What are your greatest joys? What are your greatest struggles?

FAMILY
9. How do you balance your life between family and ministry?
10. How do you maintain a quality relationship with your wife/husband?
11. How does your family feel about the possibility of your ministry move?

PERSONAL MINISTRY
12. What would you identify as your passion in ministry? In what areas of ministry
do you feel most experienced and competent? What do you believe your
fundamental calling is as a minister of the gospel?
13. Describe your spiritual gifts and how the Lord utilizes them in ministry.
14. What is a pastor’s primary responsibility? What are the next few priorities
after that?
15. What are your greatest weaknesses as a pastor?
16. What are your greatest strengths?
17. What have you been learning about God in the past year?
18. Who are your favourite authors and books?
19. What is the greatest need of the British church?
20. Do you tend to focus more on people or on tasks?
21. What are your greatest accomplishments and failures in ministry?
22. What are your goals in ministry?

LOCAL CHURCH
22. What do you perceive the major task of the church to be and what do you see
as your role in that?
23. Do you agree with everything in this church’s statement of faith?
 LEADERSHIP
24. How do you supervise, motivate and develop staff, interns and leaders?
25. What is your style of leadership (hands-on, laid-back, fast-paced, facilitator,
CEO?)

MINISTRY/PROGRAMS
26. What role do you see small groups fulfilling in the church?
What experiences do you have in small groups?
27. Describe your philosophy of ministry for equipping the body.
28. What experience do you have in leading a pastoral staff team?
29. What do you see as the primary purpose for the Sunday morning services?
(Evangelism, Equipping, Worship, etc.)
30. What is your view regarding pastoral counseling? How have you handled
pastoral counseling in the past? How much time (weekly) have you carved out
of your schedule for counseling?
31. What is a pastor’s primary responsibility? What are the next few priorities
after that?

MISCELANEOUS
32. Why are you leaving your current position?
33. What attracted you to our position?