Several of the members of that Bible study group that I was once a part went into ministries, but most devolved over time to become seeker friendly. They might have started initially to be Spirit filled assemblies, but after the realization struck their consciences hard about the truth of most televangelists, that they are basically unbalanced extremists, lots of believers fled those pews to seeker friendly assemblies. They wanted to feel good again, and set out in search of doctrines that would give them that safe, social feeling, rather than the knowledge of having been fed well with balanced sound doctrine and the blessed movement of the gifts.
Many of the disillusioned skipped over to the likes of Joel Osteen, a man who purposely shies away from truth filled, challenging messages that still remain sound, but, in the wrong hands, had morphed into extremism. Any sound tenet or principle, though at its roots it is solid, bad preachers have a kind of gift at turning them toxic; so, those truths were set aside, even the most important of them, such as the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the gifts.
Because numerous idiots in the bunch of misfit televangelists insisted on acting like lunatics who twisted Scriptures to suit their wealth building, any mention of the misinterpreted texts became quietly forbidden, even though they still held a whole lot of truth. In short time, the church transformed itself into social gatherings, divided into small groups for seniors, children, the married, and those seeking spouses, which changed the emphasis. It was no longer about growing up into Him in all things to eventually fill ministerial offices of their own, but to remain in their little cities where they paid regular tithes to their admired leader, which made him wealthy, and to listen to socially acceptable positive thinking.
