A pastor argues that churches need multiple signatories on accounts and structured management teams instead of letting one person control finances. When a pastor is the sole signatory, there's no accountability and financial abuse happens. Christ owns the church, not the pastor.
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The church should not be a one-man thing, and this is where it gets serious, particularly for pastors of Pentecostal churches. There's nothing wrong with the movement, but there's something wrong with the processes that goes on there. Something is wrong. Anybody can run a one-man thing, no accountability, no sense of decorum, nobody knows what is going on, no management team. That is not the church. Let me say this to you: when some people say pastors are thieves, there are pastors who prove it correct. Are there no places that nobody is a signatory to the account but the pastor, and they can withdraw anything he likes at any time? And I people. One day, so if auditors on earth will not audit you, Christ, the owner of the church who paid with his own blood, will stand to audit you. How dare you say you are a pastor and you have the effrontery to put your hands into God's money? Somebody wants to sow a seed to the church, you give your personal account? Something is wrong with your understanding of the church as an organization. And these are practices that has made activities of the church questionable. That's one of the reasons why I have so much respect to the Orthodox