As a church grows, it also changes. And as a Church changes, so does the accessibility of the pasor and his family. As a pastor gets busier with new people and responsibilities, some people are displaced and not as close to the pastor as they had been. Displaced people are prone to expect the pastor to ensure that their access to him and his family will never change. If the pastor agrees to these demands, he will keep the disgruntled people but not reach any new people because the mission will shift from reaching new people to pleasing old people.
Mark Driscoll
From the book “Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series)”