The survey bears out that the caliber of leadership is a far more
determinative factor in church growth
than questions of liberal - versus - conservative
positions, or social action versus personal - individual religious experience and expression.
While the panel's emphasis that an oral hearing is merely a default
position rather
than the standard indicates the HPRB may in some cases require a hearing to be in some format other
than an oral hearing, the substance of the decision points, nonetheless, quite strongly to the preferences of an applicant being a
determinative factor.