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GODSON JACOB, Ph.D.

Qualities Every Pastor Should Have
Family Oriented
How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.
Psalm 133:1
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Ability to Delegate
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
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Desire to be Involved
God Bless You!
Patience
A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
Proverbs 15:18
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Respectful
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Luke 6:31
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Communication
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1
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Accountability
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17
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Lifelong Learner
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
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Vision
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
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Humility
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3
Trustworthy
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
Psalm 56:3
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Action Oriented
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:23-35