them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account.” To the cartel, staff did not exist to generate ideas, cast vision, strategize, determine the direction of the congregation, or reshape the ministries of First Calvary. Staff were employees hired to perform ministry tasks the cartel thought necessary. I asked about this former pastor several times, and key people always eventually found their way back to the crux of the complaint: “He started trying to run the