When Should You Leave Your Church?
Gavin Ortlund
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20 November 2024
25 November 2025
What kinds of issues are serious enough to leave a church over? Gavin Ortlund works through diagnostic questions and hypothetical scenarios in considering such a question.
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Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is President of Truth Unites and Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville.
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00:00 Coming Up
00:22 Introduction
02:48 Heresy?
04:40 Spiritual Fruit?
05:15 Family?
05:32 Will the Church Suffer?
06:42 Church Leadership?
08:30 Prayer?
08:57 Fear?
10:22 Scenario 1: college student
12:16 Scenario 2: cheesy worship
20:35 Scenario 3: pastors getting fired
23:15 Scenario 4: aching for liturgy
24:55 Scenario 5: not political enough
29:25 Talking to your pastor
30:28 Having a consistent message
31:18 Leaving Well
32:04 Diving in Quickly to a New Church
