27/01/2024
Many times when an active church member leaves we are too quick to say things like:
👉God is cleaning His altar
👉God had shown me they would leave
👉God is pruning His church
👉God is removing them because He is bringing better ones
👉Their season was over, they'd overstayed
👉We prayed her/him out and God has answered
And so many other quotes that make us sound deep and on point with the Spirit of God.
What we many times don't want to confront is:
✍️Ministry abuse we watched them go through silently
✍️Tribal spirits they had to fight as they served because they don't come from the tribe the man of God or his wife comes from.
✍️ Spiritual trauma we subjected them to by allowing our leaders to bully and demean them
✍️The unfriendly confrontations they went through as they tried to support the man/woman of God
✍️The despising and demeaning gestures we expressed to them by removing them from leadership positions without telling them
✍️The misuse, mishandling, judgemental spirits, mistreatment that they endured until they eventually got tired.
Sometimes people don't leave church because their time is over. They don't leave church because God is doing away with them. God will never do away with souls the way we do away with them. They don't leave Church because they are bad...we must stop calling them rebellious. They are anointed and genuinely called nanii.
Sometimes leaving is protecting your heart and seeking healing and purpose outside the atmosphere of ministerial abuse.
We need to face the genuine reasons that make some people leave church. We are having so many Believers who are no longer going to church, they are just indoors because they would rather protect their intimacy with God than keep the posture of being churchy while being bruised at it.
Let the church be the place of peace and let's be redemptive more than religious.
Let's not allow some people to just go as we watch. We may never get their type again.