Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission:
- Engage the whole person with the whole gospel of Jesus Christ anywhere, anytime, with anybody.
Vision:
- Fuel a disciple-making and church multiplication movement in Middle Tennessee and beyond—sharing the gospel with millions, engaging community needs by the thousands, and building a network of 100+ healthy churches.
Core Values:
- Gospel First and Always: Secondary and tertiary doctrinal issues don’t define the ministry; the gospel does. The church holds theological convictions without becoming a platform for any single doctrinal agenda.
- Disciple-Making: The campus exists not just to gather people for worship but to equip them to follow Christ and serve the community around them.
- Aligned Contextualization: Each campus has freedom to contextualize ministry to its community, but always within the shared DNA, mission, and strategy of Brentwood Baptist.
- Shepherd-Centered Leadership: The church places a high premium on pastors who lead through genuine care, relational presence, and spiritual authority—not positional control.
Staff Culture
- Collaborative by design: campus pastors across Brentwood’s nine campuses meet weekly as a preaching team, study the same passage, and share research while each writing and delivering their own sermon.
- High accountability, high trust: leaders are expected to produce results, but within a culture that values encouragement and relational health over pressure and performance.
- Consensus-minded leadership: big decisions are shaped by conversation and shared input; innovation is welcomed at the table, not pushed through unilaterally.
- Invested in growth: staff are expected to have self-development plans and given real support (including professional development resources and a monthly spiritual retreat day) to pursue them.
- One church, many campuses: the cultural posture is “we’re better together,” and the campus pastor is expected to champion that connectedness, especially in moments of tension or discouragement.
- Long-term orientation: this is not a church that treats staff as interchangeable. There is genuine investment in people, including sabbatical every five years.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish, communicate, and implement vision, objectives, goals, strategies, and tactics for the Nolensville campus, contextualizing them for the unique dynamics of the Nolensville community.
- Preach weekly on Sundays (3 services) and teach when appropriate on Wednesdays and in other settings—approximately 42–45 weeks per year.
- Provide oversight, equipping, and supervision of campus ministry staff and volunteers, clearly communicating and implementing strategic and operational goals, processes, and systems.
- Determine and develop appropriate oversight of the pastoral care aspects of the Nolensville campus.
- Develop an intentional and reproducible process for identifying and developing leaders within the congregation, fostering both spiritual maturity and ministry ownership.
- Coordinate the weekly Nolensville campus worship gatherings in conjunction with the Senior Pastor, worship and preaching teams, and the campus worship minister.
- Participate in the weekly Preaching Team meeting and collaborate in sermon planning, as well as participate in campus pastor development meetings led by the Senior Pastor.
- Work with Executive Pastors to establish campus processes, systems, budgets, staffing models, and accountabilities to support the vision, goals, and strategies.
- Contextualize church-wide goals to the Nolensville campus and report regularly with clarity and integrity.
- Collaborate with the Communications Team to ensure that Nolensville’s vision, strategy, and initiatives are communicated to the campus demographic in a timely way.
- Participate in monthly and quarterly all-staff meetings at the Brentwood campus and other requested meetings across Brentwood Baptist’s campuses.
Key Qualifications
- A clear and compelling sense of God’s call to vocational ministry, specifically to preach His Word and shepherd His church.
- An effective communicator with a demonstrated ability to preach and teach with theological depth and clarity.
- Demonstrated strong alignment with the mission, vision, values, theology, philosophy, and ministry methodology of Brentwood Baptist Church.
- A mature Christian who demonstrates the Fruit of the Spirit and actively disciples others toward maturity.
- Willingness to serve as a collaborative bridge, ensuring alignment and strong partnership between the Nolensville campus and the broader Brentwood Baptist family.
- Proven ability to lead change wisely, innovate entrepreneurially, think strategically, and work within various ministry models and structures.
- Exceptional relational skills and demonstrated emotional intelligence.
- Proven ability to manage budgets, plan, and implement plans in church environments.
- Demonstrated ability to build teams, develop leaders, and foster collaborative ministry environments.
- Minimum of a Seminary-level Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of 3–5 years of vocational ministry experience required, with demonstrated, consistent preaching experience; 5–7 years preferred.
- Alignment with the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and a strong history within Southern Baptist life.