No, it’s “MacDonald’s McMansion” haven’t you been paying attention 🙂

Also, a former Harvest Elder (Bill Sperling) is the retired president of
the bank that held the mortgage. His son is an executive at the bank,
if I’m not mistaken.

“One Hand Washes the Other…”

She was the one who said it needed one. I just agreed with her, and bought it.

Excellent work, thanks.

Now we can compare this reference to MacDonald’s house.

It’s not about celebrity, it’s about power. There’s a reason why it’s typically pastors who have founded and/or grown their own church that end up getting into trouble. You rarely see examples like this in denominations like Methodism where the power of the pastors is much more limited.

A pastor who has run their church for 20 years has all the support structure he needs to suppress and control all but the worst scandals through patronage and the protection of those who are supposed to guard against such misdeeds. Their reputation is the church’s reputation and must be protected at all costs, with dissenting voices threatened, silenced and banished. Elders lean heavily on Bible verses that remind followers of the evils of speaking out against their fellow Christians, to deal with grievances in house, and to accept the final word of the council.

Something from an entirely different direction (model railroading):

Inconsistent section size, roof types, and siding treatments (AKA vertical rustic siding in one section, smooth horizontal siding in another, and masonry in still another) is a way in modeling structures to suggest a structure that “just growed” haphazardly over time, one section/expansion at a time. A structure (especially residential) designed and built as a whole will appear much more consistent, and even expansions/remodels will tend to harmonize better.

(Unfortunately, I can find no online pics of the archetypal structure illustrating this — the “small parts factory” from Frank Ellison’s pioneering “Delta Lines” circa 1940s.)

Like animate property of a certain peculiar institution.
Except motivated by threat of Eternal Hell and disfellowshipping/shunning.

I hear the church congregation would work cheap.