preached a sermon about homosexuality, only to discover later that one of these men, who had a homosexual son, was hurt by the pastor’s “insensitive” comments. And then there was politics: These men had wielded a great deal of power in the church’s short history. For some twenty years they had set the tone for the church: it would be an urbane, liberal, theologically diverse church. The pastor, however, was calling people to a more personal and Bible-centered faith. The differences erupted one