This is my manifesto about how not to hire a church consultant (me included) to help you with your pastor search. If your church will institutionalize these predictable one-off processes, your search team will thank you, your congregation will thank you, and your neck will thank you. That’s right, your neck, because you will not spend a year or more navel gazing. Instead of allocating your time to intensive internal work, your church will be well-positioned to initiate a search when the time comes. It’s much easier to keep up than catch up.