28/05/2026
DEAR CHURCH LEAVER!
You Left — Now Let It Go.
There is Something Worth Examining in the habit of Leaving a Church, Yet Continuing to Call People there, Not to Encourage them, Not to Check on their Wellbeing, But with a Subtle, almost Unconscious Hunger for Bad News. As if the Church Struggling or Declining after Your Departure Would Somehow Validate Your Exit.
But here is the Truth You May need to Sit with: No church Falls because You Walked out of it.
Think about it honestly. The Church You Left before the Last one, The one You Quietly Moved on from... Is it not Still Standing?
Is it not, in Many Cases, Thriving even more than it did when You were there? The same applies to the Departments You Served in, The units You Helped Build, The Groups You Poured Yourself into. Most of them didn't just Survive Your Departure, they Flourished after it.
Not because You were a Hindrance, But because God's Work does not Depend on the Presence or Absence of any Single Individual.
To have been Part of the team, was a Privilege given to You by God. A Platform to Serve!
We have all left a Church at some Point. Every Single one of us. And not one of those Congregations Collapsed because We Chose to move on. This is not an accident. It is by Divine Design. A time comes that You just have to Leave. When this Season Comes, Exit Peacefully. Break no one, Break nothing.
The Church has Only one Pillar, and that Pillar is Christ.
Jesus Himself Declared it Plainly in Matthew 16:18 "I Will Build My Church, and the Gates of hell Shall not Prevail against it." He did not Say, "You Will Build it," or "It Will Stand because of You.".
The Responsibility, The Authority, and The Sustaining Power belong entirely to Him. No Bishop, no Overseer, No Pastor, No Choir Leader, No Deacon, No Committed Worker, No Elder, No Committee...No Matter how Gifted or Dedicated is the Pillar of any Church.
Christ alone holds that Position, and He holds it Permanently, and He has no Assistant Pillar!
So if You have Left, Leave Well. Leave Quietly. Leave Without Sabotage, Without Gossip, Without the Weekly Phone Calls Fishing for Drama. Leave Without the Secret Hope that things Will Fall apart to Prove a Point.
Go where God leads you. Settle where you are planted. Water the ground beneath your feet.
And if Your Path ever Crosses with Former Brethren, Those You Worshipped with, Prayed with, Served alongside, let that Meeting be one of Grace. Greet them Warmly. Encourage them to Keep the Faith. Remind one another that You are all Still on the Same Side. Still Serving the Same God. Still running the Same Race, Just in different Lanes.
The Kingdom is Bigger than any Single Congregant and Congregation.
And God's Church Will Stand, Without any of us.........Grace is available 🙏
~ Pastor Steve Wonder