As Consultation I deals with the “person” called to pastor, and as Consultation II deals with the “passion” essential to the pastor, so Consultation III deals with the “process” by which the pastor leads.

Key words at each point are “purity,” “pursuit,” and “purpose.”

Our objective in this Consultation is to look at those essential elements of the pastoral assignment that involve the administration and business side of our responsibilities.

We will look at:

Leadership Principles

Means and methods for cultivating leaders in the congregation's life.
Shaping practical expectations and requirements for "calling leaders out."

Program Development

Integrating teaching and action
(i. e., "preaching calendar" and "program calendar"
Funding and Financing Ministry
(i. e., "releasing resources" and "managing resources"

Staffing

Building a staff that partners in unity and power.
Managing a staff in ways the deepen trust, commitment and joy.
Relating to a staff as "a leader after God's own heart and style."
Releasing staff to realize each one's fullest purpose and blessin.

Communications

Pastor Hayford has said, "There is nothing more essential to sustaining clarity of focus, purity of mission and integrity in relating to the church family your serve, than sensitive communication. We lead with power by how we live and as we deliver the spoken word. We govern under grace by how we communicate as we deliver the written word, and by how we exercise integrity in all use of today's array of media resources."

Ceremony

As time allows in this Consultation, Dr. Hayford discusses keys to making "all things ceremonial"--such as, weddings, infant dedications, funerals and formal civic invitations--effective for the extension of Christ's Kingdom, the awaking of sleeping souls, the extending of the Savior's tender touch, and the harvesting of individuals unto eternal life. Notable is Pastor Jack's liberating, reverent-yet-releasing approach to the Church's most common "ceremony"--Communion, or "The Lord's Table."