Biblical and church qualifications

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Please review these requirements before completing your application. The following qualifications are from Article III, Section 2, A of Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Constitution and By Laws, page 14.

Biblical qualifications

1. Minister of Music/Music Director will meet the following qualifications: above reproach, if married, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money, ruling their children and ruling their own houses well. If married, his wife must be grave, not slanderous, sober, and faithful in all things.
2. He will believe the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God, as stated in 2 Timothy 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:21, and the Bible is to be the ultimate authority in all matters pertaining to the individual’s responsibility before God.
3. He will conform to the biblical principles of Christian finances by tithing as commanded in Malachi 3:7-14 and approved by our Lord in Mathew 23:23. This means giving at least a tithe (10 percent) of his gross income to the budget of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
4. A man will be and will remain heterosexual. The belief of this church being that homosexuality is a sin as stated in Romans 1:26-28 and Leviticus 20:13.

Church qualifications

1. Minister of Music/Music Director will be a born again believer and an immersed Baptist.
2. Minister of Music/Music Director will lead his family in worship and engage in private devotions.
3. Minister of Music/Music Director will be in fundamental agreement with the doctrinal beliefs of the church as basically expressed in the “Baptist Faith and Message”.
4. Minister of Music/Music Director will abstain from the sale or use of alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs.

If you have questions about these qualifications, please contact jobs@ebcknox.org.