Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes. ~When is it right to leave your family?
~How are you going to fix something you leave? And what about all the people who are still in it who need the unique influences that you bring to the mixture of your own group?
~Where is your best mission field: in a group who thinks like you or in a group who really needs your influence?
~The vast majority of people who leave churches do so for illegitimate reasons.
~The ability to leave a church and find another one makes church discipline impossible.
~When divorce is made so easy and appealing, what happens to the willingness to make a marriage work that is having trouble?
~Church, like marriage, is designed to make you holy, not happy.
~It seems weird that Paul would encourage a slave to stay with his master but wouldn’t be bothered by a person simply leaving a church he disagreed with.
~When you have to stay, you are forced to find a way to make it work by confrontation and discussion.
~If everyone who wanted to leave the church did so, then only those people who were all so similar that there was never any disagreement would be left, which would be sad.
~How can you abandon those whom Jesus died for?
~Were they ever your family, or is it just recently that they’ve lost you?
~What level of sin doesn’t the blood of Jesus cover in your church family?
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