Stage a revolt before you depart.
700 is a good-sized church. Is your current pastor responsible for growing it that big, or is he just a "caretaker" sent to feed off someone else's faithfulness?
He is fixated on getting people to join the church. It's been really good for the numbers. He tries new things that have worked out. I have been working him to develop lay speakers in the church. We only had one who was willing to do it and he was apostate. I went to lay speaker training just to be available.
I don't care as much as the others. They are really worked up about it. But if the others leave, I am not really interested in staying. I joined the church because of them, not a given pastor. I've never cared for the pastors at the church until we got our new Associate last year. All of them have been wishy-washy liberals.
I have been pushing the idea that we need to work on changing the pastor spiritually rather than cutting and running. I think he is on the edge spiritually. One little push may put him where he needs to be. I think Emmaus would do it but he resists the idea with almost a phobia.