A prospering church always gives permission to persons within the church to conduct ministry and even make mistakes for the sake of the prime mission of the church, which is to bring persons to Christ. A prospering church always encourages full participation in ministry by any and all in the congregation while recognizing that the primary role of the pastor is for leadership, teaching, and enabling such ministry. A prospering church never allows any program of the church or church related group to restrict or interfere with the prime mission of the church, which is to bring persons to Christ. Any church whose prime mission is anything other than to bring persons to Christ is not a church at all.
Many churches start out with such a mission.
However, as time passes, as the original founders of the church age and die, as the church begins to flourish and become more organized, as the church develops structure, it may begin to lose sight of this prime mission. As time goes on such a church may begin to focus upon itself, its building, its survival, its finances, ministry to its own members, and to the functioning of its systems. When it begins to do this, its eyes focus less and less on Jesus and more and more on itself. Thus, it is important at every step of a church's life for a church to reaffirm its prime mission. It does this in the way it is structured, in how it empowers for ministry, to whom it ministers, and how it spends its resources.