Self Assessment

Step 1 of 8

The desire to be sent by your church to proclaim Christ among the nations is a noble task. With this desire comes a need to examine oneself and begin developing a plan to grow in areas that make you more like Christ and equip you to be the most effective servant as possible. Before your pastoral interview, take some time to ask yourself the following questions (if married please share with your spouse). Where are you excelling and where do you need to grow? Come to the interview ready to share what you discover. The following are the three key areas for Goer preparedness:

1. Life – Living with the Character of Christ

2. Doctrine – Knowing God, His Word and His Mission

3. Skill – Ability to do the Work of Ministry and Multiplication

PLEASE NOTE: This self-assessment is not meant to be exhaustive but rather to briefly begin to identify gaps in character, knowledge, or competency that we can work together to develop as you prepare to be sent. Also, please make sure that the only resource you use to help you answer the questions that follow is a Bible.

Sharing of Information

The goal of the self-assessment is to provide Woodside Pastoral staff with information about your personal life and relationship with Christ that will enable them to walk with you in the sending process and address areas for growth. Information provided in the self-assessment will be shared confidentially with WBC Missions staff, Pastoral staff, Mobilizers, and others as necessary to help in the development of the goer candidate (e.g., counselors, etc.).

Your Name

First Last

Your Email Address

Your Phone Number

Date

Which Woodside location do you gather with regularly

What is the name of the local church you attend? What city is it in?

Please list at least one Pastor, Staff member or leader at Woodside who knows you well

The following questions address your ministry experience and skills. Your answers will help us determine what kinds of experiences would best aid your development.

Describe which ministry or ministries you are serving with in the church. What is your role and what are your responsibilities? How has this experience challenged you and how has it grown your ministry skills?

Describe any leadership roles or opportunities you have had within the church. How have your leadership skills been tested and how are growing as a leader?

Describe your ministry aspirations and desire. Also, describe how your aspirations and desire have been tested in the context of the local church. How have your aspirations and desires been confirmed or affirmed by the church?

Describe how you are making disciples here in your current context. Including: how regularly are you sharing the gospel with people (be specific: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or less). Are you discipling believers toward maturity?

Describe how you are interacting with the cultures all around you. Do you have significant experience in international contexts? Are you in relationships with people who are different from you in your current context?

Outside of ministry skills, what experience, assets and skills do you have to offer? This might include degrees, work history, hobbies, life experience, etc.

The following 2 questions reference 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and Titus 1:6-9. Please read those 2 passages of scripture (listed below) and answer the questions that follow.

“The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

8 “Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. 9 They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10 And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. 11 Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. 13 For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.” – 1 Timothy 3:1-13 (ESV)

6 “if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.” – Titus 1:6-9 (ESV)

Ministry Qualifications

Read the characteristics of ministry leaders listed in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. Specifically, which of those characteristics are true of you? Please explain.

Ministry Qualifications – part 2

Which of the characteristics listed in the passages above are NOT true of you? Please explain.