Questions for bishop candidates
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- May
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While we wait for the results of the latest ballot for ELCA bishop of NY…
It’s interesting to note that the synod has prepared a list of 11 questions for delegates to ask of the final three candidates tomorrow morning (assuming a bishop hasn’t already been chosen).
The questions are:
1. Please comment on your abilities as a fundraiser and an administrator, and the relative importance you would place on these roles as synodical Bishop.
2. What needs healing in our Synod? Why? How shall it be healed?
3. How did you discern the call to keep your name before this Assembly?
4. What is the greatest challenge facing the church in the next 10 years?
5. List five priorities as Bishop. Imagine a pie chart indicating the amount of your time and energy that you and staff members will give to each.
6. In the report of the Town Hall Meetings in 2006, Youth & Family Ministry was rated as the highest concern among the eight mission initiatives listed in the survey. As Bishop, how will you respond to that concern?
7. The 2009, Churchwide Assembly will most likely address the rostering of clergy in same sex relationships. What is your position on this issue? If the Assembly decides to deny or approve the rostering of pastors in same sex committed relationships, how will you handle this issue on the territory of the Metropolitan New York Synod?
8. Thinking outside the Lutheran box for a moment, and without using “stained glass” terms such as “re-rooting,” “evangelism,” “stewardship,” even “Gospel-centered mission,” give us actionable proposals which will stop the slide and give direction.
9 .The Synod Ministry Review or Audit reported that a sense of disconnection – between geographic regions, among pastors, between individual congregations and the Synod – is endemic. How would you address the disconnect?
10. The Synod Ministry Review Audit reported a strong sense that too many “visions” have been placed before us in recent years, without adequate focus or follow-through. Address the issue of vision for this Synod.
11. What is a favorite hymn and how does it reflect your faith and theology?
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