# @breyeschow on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Davi7yBmbTf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67715056-breyeschow-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e3d2d74628.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13T18:20:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bruce Reyes-Chow (@breyeschow) — https://gondola.cc/breyeschow

## Caption

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 offer our energy, care, imagination, love, and service to one another, so the privilege and burden of doing so must be held with genuine mutuality. Ministry is shared, so we must do everything we can to land in places where this reality has the greatest opportunity to be realized.

Paid Subscribers get the whole list, but here are a few:

How do people experience belonging here? Listening for all of the ways the community may express and experience community.

What did the COVID-19 Pandemic reveal about the congregation, and how has it responded to those revelations? Listening for what a community determined was important to hold on to, how they adapted during the pandemic, and what they did upon their return to "normalcy."

— To read the full post and to subscribe for future writings, follow the LINK IN BIO or head over to: https://www.reyes-chow.com/10-questions-to-ask-a-pastor-search-committee/

#church #pastors #pastoralleadership #jobinterview #interviewquestions

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 17
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 0

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Reyes-Chow | @breyeschow | https://gondola.cc/breyeschow | Writer/Author |

## Tags

church, pastors, jobinterview, interviewquestions, pastoralleadership

---
Copyright (c) Gondola