There's The Door

Church leadership doesn’t want to deal with members who keep raising ‘red flags’. I know red flag waving members who’ve left our church after being told, “Maybe you’d be happier at another church.” Isn’t it interesting that God is the one who combined the body parts of the church (1 Cor. 12:24) yet some leaders not only encourage people to go to another church, they seem to hold the door open for them while they go. Diotrephes is a church leader mentioned in 3 John 9-10 who had habit of putting people out of the church. Rather than shrugging it off, the Apostle John prepares to handle the situation by “call[ing] attention to what he (Diotrephes) is doing…”