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Qualities Every Pastor Should Have

Leadership

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 13:7.

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

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