Last week I made this suggestion:
“If the church you are attending has made it clear it will not supply Bible believing mid-Acts Pauline dispensational right division, then perhaps you should take your demand (and dollars) elsewhere.”
This is called voting with your feet.
Leadership of churches pay attention to who attends their meetings. They must if they want to minister to the people there.
Whether your church votes or not, your presence (or lack thereof) matters. Every time you show up to church, leadership sees this as a vote of confidence for what they are doing and teaching.
If your church leadership does not see the importance of building on a Pauline foundation, you can ask to meet and make your appeal to them.
If they do not have ears to hear, then you have one more move. Change your vote. Move out.
By taking your Bible and choosing to leave, you are showing them how important to you it is that a church stand for sound doctrine. Staying would communicate that what matters more in the church than respecting the word of God is respecting men (or relationships, to use modern evangelical jargon).
If you want to honor them, kindly tell them why you are leaving. A proper Biblical use of “separation” is a final appeal for someone to reconsider their doctrine or actions. Leaving can be a loving rebuke if you tell them why.
“Then, where do I go for church?”
Vote with your feet to go somewhere else. Instead of going each week and casting a vote for wrong doctrine, spend that time exploring your state for anyone willing to meet around the truth. This will take some driving. This will take some time. This will take patience to find likeminded saints.
Do not be discouraged. This is a kind of ministry work. It is a good work that may result in more people meeting together around the word of God rightly divided, all because you refuse to vote with your feet for anything less than sound doctrine.
If more saints voted with their feet based on right doctrine, then we would see more people gathering around the truth of the Bible rightly divided.
Coming up, I will explain how far you can afford to travel.
For your edification,
Justin “get out the vote” Johnson