Why I left

I'm alone for a moment and I am at peace with where I'm at. I am always in need of the Lord but I know that He is with me. His staff and his rod they comfort me. He restores my soul.

I have been reading a book called Bully Pulpit by Michael Krueger. I am taken aback by how this brings everything back from 6 months ago. 

By August of 2023 I had been uneasy at church. The sermons I was hearing I could not bear. It was not conviction of sin but more I was discerning something that had been growing for a while. There was an undercurrent of bullying and I see it now for what it was. 

From the pulpit a person was preached against, a person who is a believer. I was already going downstairs because of my unease. Due to the sermon a church voted to excommunicate a brother and sister who were believers. That hurt so much, it was not even me. I could not stay. I left August 20, 2023. All I know is that man cannot take away a person's salvation.

So out of the whole situation the bible is speaks so clearly to me.

1 John 2:10-11 ESV

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.