I'm looking at both Calvinists and Pentecostals here. Both denominations seem really top-down in leadership organization.
Does anyone have any advice on how to best address corruption in the church?
My idea is that we report corruption to the denominations, but if the corruption continues then just leak it to the public.
So many churches socially coerced people into the jab, when they should have been a point of awakening. The institutions are infiltrated, including the church.
So this is wrong.
I’m a Calvinist and I am a deacon in the church. We are the least top down style church (Presbyterian Church of America). The church government for the general presbytery is led by a counsel making suggestions and churches making decisions. Voting occurs from 2 leaders of each church. The decision to change from NIV to ESV or change in song book is long and drawn out discussions, years of voting and debating. It’s not some top down leadership. Furthermore, the PCA has a relatively wide range of styles of worship, supposing you subscribe to certain ideas. It is also relatively easy to leave, since the congregation owns the property, it only requires a vote to leave the denomination. I have seen this happen. It takes 2 weeks at the fastest. The congregation owns the pastor’s salary, who the deacons are, and who the elders are. They control the overall budget. The deacons propose a budget, but we have no actual power. The elders can be removed if the congregation decides.
Defend your lies, because that is a wild and baseless claim. This is what makes this community look like bigots. People talk like experts in things they do not know.
The problem is humans are sheep. They will follow a leader, even if the leader is not a good person.
To add. The minister has no voting rights, except as a tie breaker, in church leadership (really servants) decisions.