I ve heard bishops called Money Hungry, or Greedy behind their backs. I ve heard presiding elders called Puppets of the bishop. Too often church members expect their pastor to be perfect. The late Presiding Elder Hermon C. Riley once told me, If God wanted ministers to be perfect, He would have to send angels from Heaven to earth to be ministers. It is not for church members to judge their pastors, but to love and pray for their pastors, in spite of the fact that they are only human.
Some church officers feel that they are the pastor s supervisor.
They check on the pastor more than they check themselves. Some officers, who are responsible for the accounting of finances attempt to tell the pastor what will be paid and what will not be paid, regardless of the pastor s major concerns. Just as the church members believe that they do not run pastors off, pastors run themselves off. Most pastors do not remove a member from a board, members remove themselves from boards. Some pastors who have come to the CME Church from other denominations have initiated a pastor s aide auxiliary, which has often caused them problems.