"...the working environment of pastors erodes patience and rewards impatience. People are uncomfortable with mystery (God) and mess (themselves). They avoid both mystery and mess by devising programs and hiring pastors to manage them. A program provides a defined structure with an achievable goal. Mystery and mess are eliminated at a stroke. This is appealing. In the midst of the mysteries of grace and the complexities of human sin, it is nice to have something you can evaluate every month or so and find out where you stand. We don't have to deal with ourselves or with God, but can use the vocabulary of religion and work in an environment that acknowledges God, and so be assured that we are doing something significant.
With programs shaping the agenda - not amazing grace, not stubborn sin - the pastor doesn't have to be patient. We set a goal, work out a strategy, recruit a few Christian soldiers, and go to it. If, in two or three years the soldiers haven't produces, we shake the dust off our feet and hire on as captains to another group of mercenaries. When a congregation no longer serves our ambition, it is abandoned for another under the euphemism of "a larger ministry." In the majority of such cases, our impatience is rewarded with a larger salary. - Peterson, "The Contemplative Pastor"

I'm taking our leadership team through this book. Sometimes I feel that I am pressured to do exactly what Peterson is saying here. Sometimes by my church because it is the default way church is done in America but mostly by those higher up the conference and denominational chain. They don't do this directly but it just seems this is what we are organized to do.