Why Prominent Christian Men Are Abandoning the Local Church

"They have no right to do this!" is a pretty thin answer to the question of why they are.

by Rod D. Martin
May 25, 2015

David Murrow writes this startling and too-true piece, "Why Prominent Christian Men are Abandoning the Local Church," and I was going to blog about it anyway, because it is a very real problem with significant implications both for the Christian leaders discussed and for the failings of the American church broadly and of the specific churches being abandoned.

But I posted it on Facebook first.  And imagine my surprise to have several good and well-intentioned men immediately tell me that the aforementioned leaders have no right to forsake the body.

Well duh.

And of course, they kind of made my point.  When you have to resort to "because I said so" or "because I'm the authority" to win an argument, you've already lost it.  That's where a lot of men are today with the church.

The church has authority, but it also has a duty to reach the lost and disciple them.  To disciple them means to teach them how to live their lives in conformity to God's will, and if their …