STOP ACTING LIKE THE CHURCH IS A GANG, IT'S NOT 🤷🏻♀️
I read this in a post......
Somewhere along the way, we created a dangerous, unbiblical narrative:
“If someone leaves your church, you stop talking to them.”
That is not kingdom.
That is control.
Pastors do not own people.
Leaders do not possess sheep.
Churches are not cliques, crews, or gangs.
The Bible says, “We are God’s fellow workers” (1 Corinthians 3:9). Not God’s property managers.
Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice” (John
10:27). Not your voice. Not your brand. Not your platform.
People move for many reasons.
Growth. Healing. Obedience. Assignment. Season change.
Leaving a building does not mean leaving God.
If someone leaves your church and you immediately cut them off, label them rebellious, or treat them like traitors, that exposes insecurity, not discernment.
Paul planted. Apollos watered. God gave the increase (1 Corinthians 3:6).
Notice Paul didn’t get offended when God used someone else to water what he planted.
The early church moved house to house, city to city, region to region.
There was relationship without ownership.
Unity without control.
Connection without manipulation.
Here’s the truth many don’t want to face:
Some people are not leaving you.
They are obeying God.
And if you truly love people, you will bless them into their next season, not punish them for it.
We tell people we are the Body of Christ, then treat them like they got kicked out of a club.
That’s not biblical.
That’s not Christlike.
That’s not love.
Jesus never told His disciples, “If they leave, cut them off.”
He said, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
Love doesn’t expire when someone changes churches.
Relationship doesn’t end because location changes.
Calling doesn’t stop because the building changed.
We are not in gangs.
We are not in cliques.
We are in a kingdom.
And kingdoms are built on assignment, not attachment.
If someone leaving threatens your peace, your identity might be wrapped in the wrong thing.
The last sentence is powerful.
It’s a sure and tangible sign that your identity is not in actually being a child of God, in Christ.
I just posted a powerful video on the Help a Friend group about the inner identity. How to check yourself on yhe state of your identity. How to understand its formation. And tips on how to change it… obviously ideally into being a child of God from the deepest depths of your core. Where it should be, which in essence is truly accepting and receiving Gods love and grace. That’s the actual born again felt experience.
Enjoy if you dare to watch. I put a trigger warning. ‼️ It’s deep.