Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.
I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.