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.
This is usually the case. That doesn't mean that every church that currently ordains women is in full-flung apostasy, but it does mean they're on the road that leads there.
When it comes to faithfully upholding the word of God, pressure for the ordination of women is usually the first chink in the armor, and the history of dozens of American denominations has taught us this. From there they just "make exceptions" for more and more of the Bible until ultimately they believe in Darwinism, they don't believe that Jesus is God, and that's if they even believe that God exists. There have even been ministers in the PCUSA I think that came straight out and said "I don't really even believe in God" and they didn't discipline him (or her) out of the denomination.