QUESTIONNAIRE FOR GUEST SPEAKERS
The following questions are meant to protect the purity of this local church in days of fluctuating standards and confusion in Christendom. Please answer all of the questions and return to the church as soon as possible. Feel free to add additional pages to explain any point.
1. Name ______
Address Phone ______
E-mail ______
2. Home Church
Church Address ______
3. Age Date of conversion Years in the ministry ______
4. Ordained? When? By what group? ______
5. Personal and Family
Married? Divorced? Married to a divorcee? ______
How many children? Ages ______
Is any of your family in other than good health? ______
Is your home and family a good testimony to your church and community? ______
In what manner does your wife assist in the ministry? ______
Have you left behind in any of your former pastorates indebtedness, cause for rumor, etc. which
Wouldembarrass your ministry in a new pastorate? ______
Would you be willing to submit to a background check for debt status, criminal record, and/or child
abuse history? ______
6. Pastoral Experience (List most recent churches served, dates of service, and reasons for leaving.)
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7. Education and Training
High School Year graduated (or years attended)
College Degree Date (or years attended)
Bible School Diploma Date (or years attended)
Seminary Degree Date (or years attended)
Other Training ______
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8. Talents and Experience (Please list such things as musical abilities, radio speaking, writing, teaching,
counseling, etc. which you have found useful.)
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Yes No
9. If you become the pastor of an undenominational church, will you have any
desire to change its name, its polity, or its independent status so as to identify
it with any denomination? ___
10. Would you support an evangelistic campaign in which the evangelist called for
cooperation and sponsorship of both evangelicals and liberals? ___
11. Do you cooperate with or are you sympathetic to any form of the Pentecostal
movement? ___
12. Do you take a positive stand against worldliness, such as the theater/opera,
dancing, smoking, social drinking, etc.? ___
13. What is your position regarding the New Evangelical movement?
Do not take a position either way. _____
Oppose it and speak against it, if necessary. _____
Favor the movement and support it. _____
Don’t know what it is. _____
14. What is your attitude toward the following?
Affiliation with the National or World Council of Churches ______
Purpose-Driven Church movement ______
Emerging Church movement ______
New Calvinism movement ______
Fellowship with apostate or liberal ministers ______
Marriage of believers with unbelievers ______
Divorce and remarriage ______
Ordinances of the Church
The Lord’s Supper ______
Water Baptism - mode preferred ______Required for membership? ______
Secret orders ______Methods of financing the work of the church ______
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15. Do you believe and teach without any reservation the following doctrines?
Yes No
The verbal inspiration of the Scriptures
The inerrancy and absolute authority of Scripture
The days of the Genesis creation as six 24-hour days
The universal worldwide flood
The eternal Sonship of Christ
Christ is God manifest in the flesh
The virgin birth of Christ
The total depravity of man
The substitutionary blood atonement for sin
The necessity of the new birth for salvation
Christ’s bodily resurrection
The Church began at Pentecost
The two natures dwelling in every believer in Christ
The indwelling of every believer by the Holy Spirit
16. Do you adhere to any of the following?
Yes No Yes No
Arminianism Limited atonement
Calvinism Pre-millennialism
Eternal security A-millennialism
No eternal security Pre-wrath rapture
Limited security Post-millennialism
Tongues, healing, or Pre-tribulation rapture
other “gifts” Mid-tribulation rapture
Infant baptism Post-tribulation rapture
Baptism - sprinkling Endless suffering of the lost
Baptism - immersion Healing as an integral part
Lordship salvation of the atonement
17. Are you in full agreement with the enclosed doctrinal statement of this church? (Please
state any reservations on back of page.)
18. Because of the division and confusion in the body of Christ over the proliferation of new
translations of the Bible and for the sake of continuity, this church will only use the King
James Version in its ministries. Are you willing to comply with this position? ______
19. Please give the names and addresses of three pastors who know you.
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Signed Date ______
Please mail to: Grace Baptist Church Or email to:
8704 Route 104
Mt. Pleasant Mills, PA 17853
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