What Kills the Church was founded by an adult "Pastor's Kid" who formally left the United Methodist Church after being obligated to watch silently as the Conference-level Church leadership actively worked to undermine the ministry of a local pastor (her mother) and dissolve a local congregation. These founding events effectively destroyed her life-long love of the Church and trust in its mission a
nd leadership. Where she once called herself a United Methodist, she now calls herself a "Wesleyan." She now identifies as a spiritual "Follower of Christ" rather than "Christian." This page was founded to create a platform by which those, like her, who have become disillusioned with the Church may share their stories, calling the organized institution back into accountability to the very people to whom they are supposed to minister and the laity they are called to empower. In its attempts to blindly cling to archaic doctrine and the writings of religious men who wrote their human interpretation of spiritual and cultural experiences, the organized Church (regardless of denomination) has lost its way. It is losing the culture war as the "unchurched," "spiritual but not religious" and "pagan" populations become more welcoming, more accepting and more loving than those institutions which claim to honor a loving God. We believe the Church has potential- if we can first address the very serious issues which are killing it.
