Exploring Dimensions of Spiritual Faithfulness in Church Ministry: A Narrative Study of Senior Pastor’s Ministry Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani

Faithfulness is often a virtue that sustains a mission of service. This study aimed to tell the experience one of the important actors (participants), a pastor. What are the dimensions that can build a faithful construction, especially in church services based on the experiences of participants. In a religious context, faithfulness has a different dimension, namely a transcendental dimension that does not stand alone, but is also influenced by a horizontal perspective which can be explained by the theory of stewardship. When stewardship is understood horizontally, the highest measurement of a relationship tends to be welfare and harmony. It gets reinforced by the vertical dimension where God becomes the authority of truth and becomes the reason to keep serving, especially serving faithfully. This study tries to frame the story about the phenomenon of faithfulness dimension in church ministry with a narrative approach. This study seeks to show how life of a pastor who uses faithfulness as the main pillar of his ministry.

Theological leaders such as pastors experienced neurosis. Visker 5 argued that around 65% of pastors in their study were exhausted and on the verge of neurosis.
Other research on fatigue in the professional world and susceptibility to personal complications was carried out by several previous studies such as Dunbar et

Spiritual Faithfulness
Audi 13 called faithfulness as a character trait not intensely, centered on being loyal to one person in some way. Faithfulness is an essential motivational basis for many types of bravery. Faithfulness is like bravery does not necessary mean that the holder should adhere to any moral standard.
One might think that faithfulness as a virtue about moral guidance, despite the opposite is decadent, aesthetic, and sinful. God called mankind to participate with Him in accomplishment of mission. Consequently, people will be guided by the mission impulse in developing models of faithfulness.

Stewardship Theory vs Agency Theory
Stewardship theory constructs between psychology and sociology, explaining 14  This theory is relatively new, so the theoretical contribution is less stable. There still a conflict between agency theory and stewardship. 19 Previous study has tended to argue that stewardship theory is proven, and the agency theory still has lacks. Those who support agency theory are those who see the maximum individual's satisfaction where everyone is motivated by his own interests rather than the interests of others. In stewardship theory, leaders will behave according to mutual interests. When the interests of the steward and the principal are not same, the steward will cooperate compared to oppose it, because the steward feels that common interest and behaving in accordance with the owner's behavior is rational consideration these goals.

Participant Biographical Overview
Pastor Em. Kumala Setiabrata, M.Th., If God didn't build house, the efforts of those who built it are in vain will mark the establishment of this new PGI will mark the establishment of this new PGI building; Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain; Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain (Ps. 127:1).

Spiritual Faithfulness Dimension
What are the dimensions of spiritual fidelity and how pastors manifest that devotion in church ministry are major questions in this narrative research study? Driven from primary data (direct interviews with Pastor Kumala) and secondary data from the opinions of other sources who know him four narrations were obtained as follows: The first theme is relying on God. … If he feels he doesn't know or control with certainty because the thing that is decided is not his capacity, he will hand it over to someone who is considered an expert, but he still supports the decisions made in accordance with the field or profession of the decision maker. 28 The fifth theme involves the cong- He gave a personal character and approach to get his congregation involved in church ministry.
Our church is big, however, in his words 'it is not a big church'. Actually, it's easy to give a reason to treat the congregation in general, but I don't see him do that way. There is a personal touch he gives to the congregation. This could be seen from the relationship that built between Rev. Kumala and the congregation. 30 Our first acquaintance was waiting for our children to attend Sunday School and at that time Pastor Kumala made a personal approach to us to take part in the collection service. 31 From Figure   Each child node has a unidirectional relationship to the parent node. The results of the interviews and the data obtained indicate these three dimensions are an area that affects the main participants as well as a ministry area. In these three dimensions the participants circulate, become their foothold, and have an impact.
The writers propose a model of spiritual faithfulness as shown in Figure 4 below: