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Job Offers, Graduation and Exams

Since the cat is out of the bag at church,I’ve decided to announce, that I have been offered the Assistant Pastor position at City Reformed Presbyterian Church. For those of you who don’t know, City Reformed is a PCA Church located in the center of Pittsburgh’s most densely populated neighborhood, which happens to be the location of several world-class universities, Including Pitt and CMU. The church was started 3 years ago, and they moved to a Sunday morning services about a year and a half ago. In my opinion the church has shown how those “stuffy” presbyterians can be radically faithful to the work of Jesus. In February they were organized as a church with its own leadership, and now two months later they have decided to call me as their assistant pastor while they only have 80 members.

Why are they doing this? Well I haven’t got to hear the official answer from our elders but here are some of the reasons I can think of: They are firmly committed to caring for as many people as possible. They are firmly committed to the expansion of the Kingdom. They have a hope for more churches in Pittsburgh.

Before I can even official accept their offer, several things have to happen. Many of these things are tied to the Presbyterian Denomination with which I am linked. I need to finish my masters degree which I have been working towards for the last three years. I have to complete the necessary requirements for ordination, in the PCA, this includes submitting a few papers, to show that I wrestle with the important issues that face pastors every day, and taking my ordinations exams which can be pretty grueling. After I’m able to be ordained the Presbytery, the regional network of elders and pastors, will examine the actual job offer that City Reformed has made. Once that is all accomplished I will able to official accept the position at City Reformed.