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Your not allowed toI don't know what kind of church you go to, but let me tell you how it is in the churches I know about.
The congregations vote people onto a church council/PCC/church leadership team. Those teams meet regularly to discuss church matters. Most of them may be lead by the Minister/vicar or whoever, but when our Minister was on sabbatical, they were lead by the stewards.
On that team there is a treasurer, a property secretary and maybe others too. Even the treasurer doesn't tell people how much to give each week, never mind the Minister.
The Minster leads the meetings; he/she does not direct the decisions.
Worship is planned separately by another team. In our church, anyone can go to a worship planning meeting. In the church that I grew up in, the worship committee was a separate group of people - elected, I think, from those on the PCC.
The Minister may say that they think we should do a sermon series/teach a particular book of Scripture. The worship meeting may not agree and, even if they do, if preachers don't want to take part they make themselves unavailable. No one is forced to do anything.
In what sense does the Minister dominate people?
As I said; speak for yourself.
I do not recognise that in any of our churches.
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