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Originally Posted by steve epley
can i give the other side without seeming to be excusing any bad business practices? Most pentecostal churches were built by a handful of folks who sacrificed lead by a pastor who sacrificed much to bring them to where they are. They were honest and kingdom minded. Many had to borrow many against their own names because institutions would not loan churches money. So at times churches would be in the pastor's name not by choice but of a necessity. Pentecostals had seen or denominations hire and fire preachers at whim run by two or three church board members. That would fire a preacher if he stepped on their toes. Thus the set up we have today. Where the preacher was given the right to preach his heart and make most decisions concerning the church. Now these churches are old and the founding pastors are dead or retired and the 2nd-3rd-4th-generation of pastors and saints were given a wonderful heritage and some do not appreciate it nor respect it. Again as sad as this is this is not the norm most churches has existed for decades without scandal or impropriety.
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bingo-bull's eye correct!!!!!
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