I, unfortunately, have decided that I’m going to have to leave my church due to their unrelenting BLM support and (of course) racism towards anyone who isn’t openly supporting it. When I joined this church in 2012 it was great, it was extremely spiritual and wasn’t extremist in any sort of way. They were very open and accepting of all beliefs, and I never felt ashamed to be there.
Now the entire church is only discussing how white people need to pray on our inherent evil towards minorities. One of our ministers is a black woman who was very accepting until BLM first came into existence. After that she set up a church protest to go protest the execution of a black man who had raped and murdered a woman and her child. I was NOT down with participating with that, and really considered leaving after that incident but ultimately decided to stay. From there she and another minister made it known she was not a Trump fan and now all of the leaders there are calling all white people racist. They also just recently said even other races were racist if they didn’t support BLM.
It wasnt super obvious until these past few months, but from then on things kept becoming more extremist and unaccepting. This is not a place where people can celebrate differences in thought or beliefs.
Have any of you guys had to leave a church or a community due to the rising racism of BLM / all the other shit going on? I honestly never thought I’d be hard pressed into leaving, but I don’t feel peace or love there anymore. I don’t even know how to go about finding another place to worship because I’m sure my church isn’t the only place where this is happening.
Yes, i just left my church of 8 years here in NC. Found a FANTASTIC church that sang the national anthem, said the pledge of allegiance, AND the star spangled banner last week and will be doing it again this week! They had a GIANT AMERICAN FLAG hung in the Sanctuary, too!
I left my old church because the Gospel Doctrine was being replaced by a Social Doctrine. Instead of unifying under Christ they started down the Marxist path of classism. It's so easy to become conditioned because after i had moved i realized my church of 8 years didn't have a single cross on any of their campuses, their social media, or website. But they sure as hell posted a black square on black out Tuesday. They didn't serve communion and they're still closed until next month, cowards. This is a big church with many campuses, too.
Black out Tuesday was the tipping point for me and i used that day to search up churches in the area that didn't post a black square. They made it very easy to navigate away from churches that supported a Social Doctrine.
I'm praying for the best for you. It's easy to find local churches online and watch their sermon before you attend them now. Good luck.
I was about to too, honestly. My goal when searching for a church was to find courage and boldness in countering the mainstream narrative because Jesus is the counter to mainstream by virtue of being perfect and everything else being sinful.