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Reply to: ARRGH Church

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Author	ARRGH Church

Anonymous Unregistered User	> When Church is getting in the way of your relationship with God? But doesn't this happen at some level all the time, no matter what church you're in?


Midge
Posts: 620	Presumably then a transfer is better than a split.


andy
Posts: 792	When Church is getting in the way of your relationship with God?



Anonymous Unregistered User	What do you reckon those times are? I agree with you, but for me the splitting times would have to be incredibly serious.



Anonymous Unregistered User	I think there are times to stay and try to discuss and change things from within, and times to split. AML



Anonymous Unregistered User	Indeed. In fact, it looks like "a few people leaving" will be more accurate that "splitting". But I still feel gutted by it.


Midge
Posts: 620	So they actually explicitly thought of splitting? I thought you just meant it was a possible side-effect of the disagreement. You'd have thought people would have had enough of splitting by now.



Anonymous Unregistered User	(Actually, also unloving and ungodly, if your definition of love includes trying to stick with people, and if your definition of godly includes a commitment to unity).



Anonymous Unregistered User	Misguided. But so is the non-rebellious side of our church. However, surely it's worth us all trying to stick together and argue out our problems, rather than splitting.


Midge
Posts: 620	Yes, it's tragic but true that some people seem so resistant to change. What about your particular situation - do you think those people are unloving and ungodly, or just misguided in their zeal?