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And I have been on either a  DEACON board or on an ELDER  board that goes through a process and list of anyone, that wants to PASTOR your church. So I say, what are the verses that help any assembly to appoint a Pastor?

What say you ??

BISH'OP, noun [Latin episcopus; Gr. of, over, and inspector, or visitor; to view, or inspect; whence, to visit; also, to view. This Greek and Latin word accompanied the introduction of christianity into the west and north of Europe.]

Philippians 1:1~Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

3rd John verses 9-11~"I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God."

So I say, what are the verses that help any assembly to appoint a Pastor?

What are the verses that says anything about a pastor?

     And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their companions: 

     'Let each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, 
     and tell you which of them are to be destroyed-and them destroy ye.' 

     And He gave over unto them those sheep. And He called another and spake unto him: 

     'Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them. And every excess and the
     destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds, record (namely) how many they destroy according to my command, and how many according to their own
     caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects. And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver
     over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether
     or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only
     record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me.' 

     And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the
     hand of the lions. (1st Enoch 89:59-66)

yes, I know that.  I should have simply said what I wanted to say and forgot about trying to be clever.  Based upon Acts 20:!7-28 we see that elders [πρεσβύτερος/presbuteros], bishops or overseers [ἐπίσκοπος/episkopos] and shepherds or pastors [ποιμαίνω/poimainō] are all one and the same.

So in terms of offices and officers in the congregations, there are really only two; they are the elders and the deacons.  In addition, we read of prophets, evangelists, ministers, preachers and teachers, but these are not conferred with any leadership authority in the congregations.