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I learned early on in my church life that there were legitimate leadership and what I learned later returned 'tribal forces'.Angelina said:What tribal forces are you referring to??? :huh:
Which is not unusual in Pentecostal churches like mine, at least not in Canada, because the style of church government used is the Congregationalist style, which lends itself to this type of problem. The pastor's leave because they're either under too much pressure to do certain things or because they feel they have no influence whatsoever.Angelina said:That's sound very much like the Pentecostal Church I use to attend. We saw at least 4 Pastors go through in 5 years. It was a little disheartening to see that but the members were mostly mature believers who had did their best in helping young Pastors with their first Pastoralship and their families in every way possible. The trouble seemed to be the lack of funds and the need for the Pastor's to have to work as well as minister. It didn't help that the newly acquired Pastor's inherited the leadership team...JM :9qcrib:
Very sad.Angelina said:Well my old church is similar to number 2. Pastors were appointed by the Executive. Now I'm kinda involved in a small AOG which is liken to number 1. This church just recently broke away from the main AOG and became independent...There has been a lot of arguments there about finances. The heads/executives wanted to shut this little Church down and disperse it's finances to a bigger regional Church which one of the heads happen to pastor. This didn't happen because the Pastor of this small church was also a retired Barrister...need I say more <_<