People aren’t leaving the church because they think “The World” is a safe place.
They’re leaving the church like someone runs out of a burning building—or jumps out of a 30 story window in a burning building, not because they have an overwhelming desire to jump to their death, but because the alternative is unbearable.
If you’ve been hurt really badly in a church, or if you’ve seen behind the curtain, it can be overwhelmingly to try to start over—especially if it’s happened several times.
It’s also pretty devastating to look around and see that a majority of evangelicals are completely delusional on issues like economics and public policy.
Sometimes people leave churches for frivolous reasons. But a lot of people are now leaving church because they just can’t bear the lack of integrity, or the racism, or the misogyny. And none of those issues are trivial.
Integrity matters. Racism and misogyny are real problems in a lot of evangelical spaces.
Instead of dismissing everyone who leaves the church as spiritually immature or unserious or resistant to accountability, consider for a moment that some of their criticisms may be warranted.
Maybe test the smoke detectors.
Maybe test the smoke detectors.
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