Unintentional Systemic Pastoral Passive Aggression

My friend was up mad. Maybe frustrated would be a better word. Thoughout the tenure of my friend's leadership of a very large congregation (we'll call it First church) there were several recurring themes. This week the issue taking front and center was what he perceived to be the consumeristic spirituality that a large portion of his congregation seemed to hold. One event that brought up this issue was a phone call, from a concerned churchmember who reported that a family he loved and cared for, a family he actually knew, was leaving First Church for a church with new video venue and hip new youth ministry. The second event was the Tuesday staff meeting in which the Executive Pastor reported on the process of looking for a youth pastor. The process was going very slowly, and the church was looking for just the right person, however, there were rumors floating around the congregation that First Church no longer cared about youth and families because they did not see Youth ministry as a priority. Furthermore, there were people who had take the Senior Pastor's own words in a recent sermon and twisted them to feed this rumor. This development sent my friend into a rush of emotion. He personally wanted to care for teenagers and he knew the staff cared about teens, which is why they were taking their time to find just the right person. But their approach seemed to be causing problems. The next Sunday rolled around and my friend was giving the sermon. In it he blasted Consumerism. He blasted people who come to church for the wrong reasons.

If you change the circumstances, or the topic of frustration you have something that is a very common senario. A pastor gets upset with results, or cirmcumstances and immediately points the finger at people. The problem isn't always with the people, often the problem with in the system.

Can you identify the systems issues in this story?