Accountability is good, thus the Presbyterian form of church government (which became the pattern for our representative form of civil government) with its built-in checks and balances where pastors are accountable to the congregation and the congregations are accountable to the Presbytery.
Baptists have too little accountability, but that is nothing compared to Rome with it's corrupt, authoritarian form of government where church polity is decided by a bunch of old men in dresses headed up by a false bishop of Rome who try to convince the congregations of their "infallibility."
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
Tragically, when Roman Catholics are fooled, their children often pay the price.
Mr. mm and I have always considered accountability to be important for a church so have never sought out an independent church to attend, but rather one which answers to denominational authority.
That also is a safety check as there have been cases I’ve heard of where pastors were preaching questionable, unscriptural doctrine and after a visit from someone at headquarters, he was GONE!
You don’t end up with Jim Jones type scenarios like that.