Why A Lot Of People Won't Attend Church Anymore

Galatians 6:1-3, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”

I don't find any passage of Scripture which teaches to throw people under the bus, kick them out of their church family, and kill your wounded in a church.

A lot of people won't attend church anymore because they're tired of being kicked out of their church family. No pastor or so-called New Testament "church" should ever have any right to kick you out of your family. The local church is your surrogate family in the Lord.

When you attend a local church for a few years, you form friendships. You make close acquittances. You get to know people, and they get to know you. You are making an investment into that church with your time, your money, your love, your concern, your prayers and your very soul. The Bible says in Luke 12:34, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Your heart follows your investment. When you attend a church for 45 months, you have made an investment with your life.

But then one day, because you said something in a comment on Facebook or other place on social media, you are told the next time you arrive at church by the pastor that you are no longer welcome; to leave and don't come back before they call the police on you. This is how people are being abused by today's ungodly shameful pastors and carnal churches. Why prey tell me, would anyone who has been through such a traumatic negative experience, ever want to attend another church? Only a fool would invest into something risky and uncertain.

I have known numerous Christians, including myself, who have been kicked out of a church on a whim. They didn't even bother to talk with us first at the wicked Family Baptist Church at 5454 W. Mobile Highway in Pensacola, they just kicked me and my wife out of our church family in 2025. In some previous churches, I was compelled to leave and then banned afterwards when I tried to go back. Campus Church did that to me at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) in 2022. Today's pastors are horrible, brutish, cold-hearted and woefully lacking in God's love and compassion. I speak to their utter shame.

I cannot blame people for not wanting to attend church anymore, when after years of investing your love, time, money, prayers and resources for Christ, their carnal ungodly pastors just kick you out of your family, throw you under bus and leave you for dead spiritually. I've seen this happen countless times to truth-tellers, for befriending pastors with the truth of God's Word. The Apostle Paul experienced this painful situation himself. Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”

Kicking someone out of a church is no different than if you were to throw a family member onto the street. People just aren't willing to invest everything they have into a local church anymore, just to have some ungodly jerk for a pastor take it all away from you on a whim. No pastor should have that kind of power, but they do since it is their organization and not the LORD's.