From my newsletter, The Amalgamation — 10 Questions to Ask a Pastor Search Committee: Ways to determine mutuality and meaning wherever you may serve next Excerpt — In these interviews, there is often time at the end to ask the interviewers questions. The type of question one asks should depend greatly on the stage of the process, but I have always found that time to be less than adequate or fulfilling. As much as I may want the position, this process is ultimately about discerning a mutual call. This process can be stressful for anyone being interviewed, but we must not allow our anxieties or desperation to shortchange our inquiry process. Churches and pastoral candidates have different life circumstances, but leaving important questions unanswered can lead to bad matches, unclear expectations, and harm to both the pastor and the congregation. Pastors, we are interviewing the congregation as much as they are interviewing us. These processes are meant to land in a place where we can...