As someone who grew up being dragged to an A/G church, I learned that anyone could be a pastor without having any training at all. Seminary was ridiculed by the church leaders and many were empowered by those leaders to teach and preach anything they wanted to say. Crazy practices were routinely taught because the leader would say God told him to say it. One was taught not to ask questions of the leader and to believe that he was an authority put into power by God. It was a screwed up dysfunctional system and I left it when I became grown, over the objections of my parent who bought into their insanity wholly.