Should they leave or stay?

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Originally Posted by Pianoman

In this situation, the paster knew of the young preacher's potential. He had plans to use the young man's leadership abilities to help grow his church.

In my opinion, the pastor knew that it would be a huge loss for his church, so he told the young preacher that it wasn't God's will!

My point is that the PREACHER's WILL was made to be GOD's WILL!

Yup..... I got your point.

at my old church it was very difficult to get permission to go to bible school.

Talented preachers were not allowed to preach out.

Why? same reason PM. They were expected to help grow the kingdom of God.

It seemed to be more the preachrs kingdom.

When retirement time came he orchestrated putting his son in law in as pastor.

SIL took over 200 K out of the church his last year there before resigning, and most of the year he didn't even preach. he had an evangelist in for most of the year who got paid more than most pastors on this forum made.

They were paid off in a nice building, but are now gouing deep in debt to build a building twice the size of the one that was no where near filled up.

So glad I escaped when I did. Went to assit a nieghboring pastor. I had to leave against the WILL of THE pastor...but I have never doubted GOD WILL was in my move.