What you write is very true. My church (Presbyterian) went through this too, and a lot of my fellow Presbyterians banded together and sold our buildings and then started our own church. We had 250 families to start with, and now have close to 800! All in less than 5 years. The power is there, all you have to do is to use it in the right way. We had set it up so that when you "loaned" money to the church building fund, the church owed you that money back plus interest. The Presbytery (governing body of the church) was forced to sell the building to re-pay all of us who had loaned money, and they lost tons of money on the deal. They learned an expensive lesson too, that being, don't pi$$ off your fellow Presbyterians when they hold the checkbook!
Brilliant and impressive. We belong to a PCUSA church in San Diego that is part of the Confessing Churches movement but whenever we send someone to national to represent us, I have to ignore what comes out, or just hold my nose.