It sounds like the pastor was not the problem in that so-called church.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (ESV)
That was the conclusion my friends and I came to, rather quickly in fact. (see post 8)
Amen!