1. The re-using and re-cycling of old material. It doesn’t take much to figure out if pastors start playing reruns that something is not healthy.
2. Changing the Rules – This is when the leadership starts fudging on the constitutions or stepping away from long held convictions.
3. Shrinking Ministries – When the pastor gets up and declares that they are stopping ministries to make their ministry “simple” but the truth is no one is coming any longer or no one wants to serve - - things are not good!
4. God sighting, but you did not see Him – When the pastor starts having visions from the Lord or claims that “God spoke” to him about a certain direction – I would be wary.
5. Spiritualizing bad behavior – when pastors start mistreating the sheep and use all kinds of spiritual mumbo-jumbo to validate the bad behavior – run!
6. Spending money with little to no accountability – Money seems to be the solution for sinking ships – its not!