Pastor shuts down church without warning congregants

[Michie]

A Tennessee pastor who reportedly shut down his church, seized control of the congregation’s cash and real estate, then took up another preaching job in a different town has agreed to return control of the church’s assets to the congregation following pushback from members.

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Pastor shuts down church without warning congregants

A Tennessee pastor who reportedly shut down his church, seized control of the congregation s cash and real estate, then took up another preaching job in a different town has agreed to return control

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[Richard T]

Never give the deed or bank accounts to a single person. I hope the new church fires him. Some pastors are becoming very demanding. I know of one church where the Pastor was fired (doctrinal issues I believe) and was suing the church because their buyout offer of like 100k in severance was too low to him. It was a church of maybe 100.
Seems similar in both cases to the sons of Eli, (I Sam. 2) As priests they were overcharging for their duties. (Eli's sons too were committing immorality as well.) God said He would replace them with ones of his heart and mind. I pray that happens to these Tennessee churches and any others where the motivation is money or other things and not people.