Im suspecting that the church board member who sits there the longest and in charge of managing the finances thinks he or she 'runs' the church.
Also Ive seen some weird or questionable things like church manses rented out to tenants who dont belong to the church, to provide income.
Or church land being sold to transport authorites to widen the road, and the money being supposedly put into trust to go back into the church property but someone just sits on it.
Donations being refused because they cant be sold as the goods are being used for missions.
Dangerous fireworks being sold on pop up stalls on church groundsand funds or profts used to pay the bills.
Church buildings being financed by pokies (slot machine) outfits.
Churches being mortgaged to the hilt and new members being asked to pay the debt they had no say in creating.
Church buildings/halls rented out to parties
On saturdays, mainstream churches rent out their buidling to SDAs for their services but never fellowship, the only relationship is a business transaction.
Church carparks being leased during the week.
Church carboot sales to raise funds, never mind there might be stolen or hot goods on sale.
Yea just a few things Ive observed.