[Jaxon]

I would like to know if anyone has a solution to a problem that seems to be occuring more frequently.

Here's the scenerio:

Let's say an established church that has been affliated for years (you can say UPCI or other initials if you wish) has a pastor vacancy. The reason is because the longtime founding pastor has died. The church votes in a new pastor. Everything goes smoothly, no major changes for a few years. Then the pastor brings the ideato the church that disaffiliatingfrom the organization would be good because they would have more flexibility to reach the lost. The pastor tells the church he does not want to change anything that's always been preached, no deviation from docrtine or anything like that. He just says disaffiliation would be a good thing for the overall good.

So the congregation believes every word he says and votes to disaffialiate. Then it isn't long before he actually does begin to change. Doctrine, you name it. He pretty much does as he pleases. Accountable? He put in a puppet board. Of course he wil be accountable in the end to God. For now though, a church that took years to establish has been turned upside down. The saints that were deceived - most will go somewhere else and there will be a skeleton of a church remaining, if that.

I've seen it happen. It's sad. It's dishonest. If someone wants to start a church that believes whatever, fine. But it's a sad day when a man stoops so low that he would destroy a church that a man had worked so long to build, and destroy it through dishonesty.

There doesn't seem to be an answer for the problem. Any thoughts?