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I can't imagine the idea of sending someone to a state to shut it down, makes no sense. I have felt at times over the years that 'personal grudges' appeared to be the reason a church was shut down and sold or a pastor was sent to a church that was aging out as a spiteful move.Anything is possible but I cannot see it on a wholesale basis. Must be a small state. you are speaking of. By the way, welcome aboard...... Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

Sure sounds familiar.

Re: Go out of Business

I don't know you or your state, but I have to ask.What would you do if you were the AB and would the situation be any better?Just asking a tough question

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Centralized government, ya gotta love it! Charles A. HutchinsSenior Pastor SPWCCongregational Church of Godwww.spwc.church

While it is true that ABs can just about do what they want, if a local church can’t pay its bills and keep the doors open, it falls on the AB as the one who has to deal with it as ‘a real estate asset.’ I would bet money, if I were a gambler, that an AB would not just sell a local church property if it could have stayed open and paying its bills. It is not their goal to close churches. The ABs I’ve known have done all they could to keep struggling churches open, and always took it personally if they failed. I have seen ABs actually take an associate pastor from one church (that needed him) and place him as lead pastor in a dying church situation that only ended up prolonging the last gasp of the lifeless church for a year and a half and

While it is true that ABs can just about do what they want, if a local church can’t pay its bills and keep the doors open, it falls on the AB as the one who has to deal with it as ‘a real estate asset.’ I would bet money, if I were a gambler, that an AB would not just sell a local church property if it could have stayed open and paying its bills. It is not their goal to close churches. The ABs I’ve known have done all they could to keep struggling churches open, and always took it personally if they failed. I have seen ABs actually take an associate pastor from one church (that needed him) and place him as lead pastor in a dying church situation that only ended up prolonging the last gasp of the lifeless church for a year and a half and

Things happen different when a state is in financial trouble. In our State We have seen churches yet with all bills paid, all reports paid and money in the bank closed. Not because and members were upset, but because they were seen as an asset that the state wanted. There was no attempt to turn the church around.

While it is true that ABs can just about do what they want, if a local church can’t pay its bills and keep the doors open, it falls on the AB as the one who has to deal with it as ‘a real estate asset.’ I would bet money, if I were a gambler, that an AB would not just sell a local church property if it could have stayed open and paying its bills. It is not their goal to close churches. The ABs I’ve known have done all they could to keep struggling churches open, and always took it personally if they failed. I have seen ABs actually take an associate pastor from one church (that needed him) and place him as lead pastor in a dying church situation that only ended up prolonging the last gasp of the lifeless church for a year and a half and