General Information
Job Title:
Minister of the Word and Sacraments
Job Description:
We would desire either an ordained minister who has experience in serving as Pastor in a Reformed church, or a licensed seminary graduate.
He would serve as the pastor of the flock in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia – a congregation of about 60 people, and would replace the minister there who is retiring in April due to age and poor health.
Position Qualifications:
Our Presbytery passed the following motion:
“… the two Sessions begin to investigate, widely, avenues to pursue men who might hold to our distinctives, and to be put in contact with ministers of the gospel as possible candidates, within these parameters:
1. Subscribe to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity.
2. Hold to sovereign particular grace.
3. Hold to our understanding of the Regulative Principle.
4. Or who would undertake to preach or teach within our distinctives as in 2. and 3.”
Application Deadline
Job Type:
Full Time
Salary Range:
TBD
General Information
Church/Organization Name
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia
Contact Name & Contact Info
Industry
Church
Denomination
Not Applicable
City, State
Description of Organization
The EPCA came into being, in the providence of God, in 1961. God had been working in the hearts of many folk especially in Tasmania, Australia, and drew them to a fervent love of the Reformed Faith, especially as summarised in the Westminster Standards. Our denomination was brought into existence with the help of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, who ordained our first ministers and constituted our first Presbytery.
From its inception, the EPCA has been fully committed to the Westminster Standards, and the ethos of Scottish Presbyterianism. Our Constitution states:
“The Standards and formularies of the Church shall be, the Westminster Confession of Faith the Larger and Shorter Catechism, the Form of Presbyterial Church Government, and the Directory of Public worship as originally accepted by the Church of Scotland.”
And:
“Subject to these articles the constitution and law of the Church shall be the constitution and law of the Church of Scotland in the year 1843 so far as applicable, and the legislative, administrative and judicial powers of the courts of the Church shall be those existing in the Church of Scotland in that year.”
All office-bearers of the EPCA are required to fully subscribe to the Standards of our Church, as their Confession.
Of particular note is that, as a conservative Presbyterian church, we hold to the Regulative Principle of worship, which we believe is God’s clear command and leads to God-honouring worship. Our worship is thus simple, reverent and unadorned, singing only the Psalms, without musical accompaniment.
It is also to be noted that we hold fervently to the doctrine of sovereign particular grace, believing it not only to be Biblical, but also to hold forth the beauty of a salvation that is full and free, in which all glory is given to our merciful God and Redeemer. As such, we reject the false doctrine of so-called “common grace” and the associated doctrine of the “Well-Meant Offer of the Gospel”, sometimes called “The Free Offer of the Gospel.”