Get With The Program or.......!

Interesting, history shows us that Christian institutions do not die. No matter how corrupt they might have become they survive. However, the people seeking restorations within the church were often not given a voice. They were persecuted by the Christian Institutions, and if the restorationists refused to be silent, they were driven out, or in too many historical cases, killed. The original remained, and the new began, not because they pulled out, rather because they were driven out.

As I look around today, I believe the following quote rings true to how many people act in protestant evangelicalism too. Today, you just can't question how things are done by a leadership today. If you see weaknesses in a modern method, well just be quiet. If you don't buy all (100%) a church leadership is trying to sell to a congregation, even if you are excited with 9/10ths but have an issue with only 1/10th of vision or program, you are blackballed. Spun as a person with no vision, accused of being negative or snippy, Not desiring the church to grow, being argumentative, and often you are marginalized, or at times, even shunned.
CEO Leadership styles promote this inability to deal with a dissenting voice. After all we are told to, "Surround ourselves with like minded people." Does that not mean, don't listen/hangout/align/rub shoulders with anyone who "does not fall in line" with YOUR line....?
as long as you are doing my stuff, my way, we are thick brother. If you're not......
I've experienced it some personally, but been pretty lucky. However, I have seen it done to others often.

"Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are to often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished."
(J. C. Ryle, 19th-century English writer and minister)