What does it take to be a "City Reaching" Pastor?

1. City Reaching Pastors (CR) are desperate to be used of God in a Kingdom setting. The considerations of self, denomination, how good I look, continue to diminish.

2. CR Pastors desire to do things with the whole city in mind, those elected, commissioned, or anyone who has authority. Praying with and for other Pastors and Christian Leadership of similar calling is not unusual, and considered one of the highest priorities the Lord gives to us as Shepherds of a city (1 Tim. 2:1-8).

3. CR Pastors realize the irrelevance of their own single congregation impacting the city entirely, unless that same congregation is combined with others in similar tactics to accomplish much more influence for the Kingdom of God.

4. CR Pastors are increasingly alert to the need for strategic planning that considers the whole of all the congregations’ aggregate contribution on the whole to a city.

5. CR Pastors are willing to measure the Harvest Force (the congregations) and the Harvest Field (what are the specific felt needs of the city that is needing reaching).

6. CR Pastors realize there is a need for a leadership structure that is servant motivated and expressed. Rarely does a city or region realize success unless there is a dedicated person assigned full time to the communication, administration, and servant facilitation of the City Reaching Task wanting to be completed. Answer this question for those who would become leadership in your city, ("who would I follow anywhere?").

7. CR Pastors don’t care who grows and gets bigger, because God causes the increase. The ultimate question to ask of myself and to bring into comparison to the past is ("have I been faithful to do what Christ asked me to do in my area of the city?").

8. CR Pastors are focused and unified around the "harvest". Whatever increases Christ being known and is not motivated by competition or self, will stand as holy to the Lord.

9. CR Pastors are obedient bound to the welfare of the city. Jeremiah 29:7

10. CR Pastors accept that the flock they are to looking after is not comprised of only believers in their fold, but the unbelievers outside the fold in a city. Shepherding is not an isolated job within a city, it is a networking job of kingdom building, until all are prayed for and presented the opportunity to accept Christ.