Letters From Leavers

Holiday is perfect but not without ‘JC’

itzjoel — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:33:22 +0000

Christmas to me is the celebration of the incarnate Jesus. It is the self-revelation of God to the world in human form for the reconciliation of humanity to Himself. Because God gave Himself, we tend to believe in giving during Holiday season or Christmas season (that may be the tradition - I wonder!!!). Giving, sacrifice, Holiday [...]

Xmas…

joann — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:54:45 +0000

Dear Church, I attended the children’s christmas program yesterday with my son. He had no desire to be in it, but wanted to come as an observer. The children were adorable dressed in their Christmas best. Even the tiny tot picking her nose in the front row was charming! I would never criticize or condemn the [...]

Invisible

leaverAN — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:41:41 +0000

Dear Institutional Church, With great reluctance I have come to leaving you. Of course I left mentally some time ago, but with a sense of duty, obligation, and perseverance, I continued to attend until recently. I came to faith about ten years ago. Since then, through either work or studies, I have lived on four different continents. [...]

Leaving emotionally

jabes08 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:50:35 +0000

Dear “Church,” I really don’t know who or what ”Church” I’m referring to. You see my entire life, I’ve been pulled from one church and pushed to another or vice-versa. I never really stayed with one church long enough to commit to it and even when we were there, my first loyalty was to my family. We lived too far [...]

Staying Free

Blessed — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:40 +0000

Hi and God Bless everyone. I left the Church because the truth is not being preached. I read and study my bible all the time and when sitting in Church I would hear something being said was from God’s Word that I know was not. My reaction would be where is that in the bible. [...]

talk relationship to exploit labour

darknight — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:21:34 +0000

dear pastor It has been a almost three years since I left your “fellowship” in California. I know how you would respond if you were to get this letter because I was with you one day that you saw a letter from former disaffected members, you dismissed what they had to say, because according to you [...]

divine healing?

joann — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:20:06 +0000

Why is it that when bad things happen, Christians are quick to warn you not to “blame God” and to “trust God” for the outcome? And when things finally start to get better everyone assumes it is because “God has brought healing”….so He gets the credit when things go well, but cannot take the “blame” [...]

Deacon & Usher (Buzzards Who Left)

deaconandusher — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:24:35 +0000

Usher: Can we put this all in a letter Deak? Deacon: I don’t think so, it would be volumes! Usher: So should we invite them to our site? Deacon: Please do… Usher: Welcome all to a site (deaconandusher.wordpress.com) that’s about today’s unconnected, irrelevant and disfigured church. Come join us as we delineate “the church that man has built” and [...]

Unrequited love

angel28 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:39:47 +0000

Dear my former church I dearly wish you had been everything you said you were. I wih you had been a community. I wish you had been a place genuinely committed to people’s healing, a place where people could ask questions, a place were people honoured commitments, a place where people extended care. I loved you so [...]

Holy Spirit Has Called Us Out Of ‘church’

exodustimes — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:23:32 +0000

We spent the last three years searching for a church that would simply stand on the bible. We found none! We prayed and God has showed us clearly the ‘church’ of today is pagan, not biblical, and down right evil. It is not the church(body of believers) of the book of Acts, It is clearly man [...]