The following is an extract from a book by Shaun Kearney. Before Shaun saw the truth of the Institutional Church, he was a well known Pastor in New Zealand. He was at the forefront of establishing one of the larger pentecostal movements in the country and was the President of Auckland's Pentecostal Fraternal. So like me this man was very involved and so needs to be listened to when he now says that the Institutional Church is on the wrong path. I have written a snippet of his book The Counterfeit Church below

the system pastors struggle with is not just difficult, but impossible. It's like entering a forest with a hammer to cut down trees. It's impossible, because the system they grapple with has no precedent in the word. It's also demoralizing, because it effectively defeats the purpose they hope to achieve. Instead of their flocks becoming strong, they remain weak. Their churches have revolving doors that frustrated, disatisfied sheep walk through as they wonder from church to church, (high places), looking for reality. It's building with straw, because it has no scriptual foundation. In spite of all the good things that happen within the system, the good should never be the enemy of the best. For this reason many Christians are no longer loyal to one church. Pastors must must rely on the happy hour on Sunday morning's to accompolish everything they want to...

The reality is this , the demands upon the workers by employers nowadays is greater than it has ever been, and so their time is to precious to waste...

You see activities are a must to keep the faithful loyal to their franchise, because they might begin to wander...

(Pastors) The New Testement does not support the exalted position given him in the modern church. he is without contradiction an interloper, intruding in God's affairs. he cannot be seen in Act's nor did he ever exist in Paul's thinking. he has as much validity as 'big-foot'. You cannot build a case for the modern pastor on one proof text, (Ephesians 4:11 - 13) or then you become just as guilty as the Mormons, who baptize for the dead.