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When choosing a new pastor, some denominations and congregations rarely take time to reflect on their past. As a result they may repeat the problems with a new pastor that they have had with former pastors. Other congregations and denominations do not feel they have done an adequate job of preparing for a new pastor if they have not looked carefully at their past (particularly if there were problems between the pastor and the congregation) and have come to an understanding of how and why those problems developed.