Fortunately we bounced him out of Indianapolis and he went to San Francisco where there were many of his kind around ~ to be misled, or not, as he would desire.
The Reverend Jim reinforces the basic Christian Church movement belief that a strong hierarchy, or a Deacon above the other Deacons may not be what you need to preserve the church.
The early Calvinist leaders would have been better off maintaining their positions as teachers and plate passers and simply dispensed with higher orders of church organization.
BTW, the Christian Church movement has always sought to recreate the Second Century Christian experience and system of beliefs. Outside of the hierarchy ideas, it ends up paralleling both the core of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy to the point where it's "stodgy".
Some Protestants probably deviate from that core to their own distress.
I was raised Lutheran. I’ve attended different churches. Mostly, I’d just call myself “Christian”.