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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
I agree that this is the way things ought to be done.
However, you are a jewel among men. Others have taken this same position, and then absconded with everything, leaving the church to collapse in on itself. That is the reason that you have boards setting the pay most places. Congregations of every faith have been burned many times this way.
I have observed several pastors who were technically on the books as hirelings behave as just as boldly as you claim you are free to do. Those shackles are in the mind. If the preacher is true, and the board is out of God's will, the preacher is done a favor, frankly, if he is asked to move on.
Your congregation has come to know, love and trust you. What will the procedure be with your replacement, when that time comes?
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True claiming to be a pastor does not guarantee character. I too have witnessed abuses by charlatans but also by church boards who fired the preacher when he touched their families. God hired me and he fires me not a church board. However I do have elders in my life I would willingly submit to.