What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?

"What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/what-is-the-right-time-to-leave-a-church\/#arve-youtube-mzw7jmqi3g8656f3ccbc889a726563562","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mZw7JmQi3g8?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/STP-S25-EP09-The-Right-Time-to-Leave-a-Church.jpg","uploadDate":"2023-08-31","description":"What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesDr. Caldwell recommends a couple of resources that will be helpful for people to navigate some of these things. 9Marks Ministry has 9 short videos (9Marks.org/about/the-nine-marks/) and a book, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, along with several other resources to assist believers in this endeavor. Tom Pennington has written a book, Three Hallmarks of a Biblical Church Member, regarding faithful church membership that will also be helpful. Additionally, linked below are sermons that Dr. Caldwell has preached on this subject:The Marks of a Healthy Church - Parts 1-4The Heart of a Healthy Church - Parts 1-4The Behavior of a Healthy Church "What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?" | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/what-is-the-right-time-to-leave-a-church\/#arve-vimeo-856877552656f3ccbc9d3a357736757","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/856877552?dnt=1&app_id=122963&html5=1&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/STP-S25-EP09-The-Right-Time-to-Leave-a-Church.jpg","uploadDate":"2023-08-31","description":"What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify What is The Right Time to Leave a Church?In evangelical circles, there are all kinds of questions about leaving a church. Occasionally, you will hear of people who have left churches over some rather strange things, like a disagreement over paint and carpet choices, there wasn't a choir, they don’t sing out of hymnals, sermons are too long, there aren't pews, they don't have a coffee shop, and so on and so on. These seem to be choices based on personal preference rather than biblical standards and convictions. How can believers rightly understand what a healthy church should look like and whether they should stay or leave the church that they are in? Today on the Straight Truth Podcast, Dr. Josh Philpot asks Dr. Richard Caldwell to help us consider if there are rights and wrongs about leaving a church. They seek to help us think through what are good and valid reasons for leaving a church to be part of another one, also if staying home and doing church 'online' is an option for believers. Dr. Caldwell reminds us that every believer needs to be part of a true church. That church in your local area may be healthy or unhealthy. It may be a good church, it may not be the best church, but it’s a church. He also reminds us that even the churches referenced in the New Testament had problems that had to be addressed regularly. There isn’t going to be a perfect church this side of heaven. Local churches will always have issues of different sorts that have to be dealt with. He says that sometimes the standards we apply to churches can cause us to be too quick to leave when we would be better off sticking in there to allow the Lord to do His work in that church or even in our own hearts and minds.  Having shared this, Dr.