The people inside a building are the ones worshipping God, not the chairs or beautiful designs. You can worship God in any building and call it a church. If I write the word ‘church’ without the letter ‘U’, it means U are missing, so a church without ‘You’ in it is meaningless. The issue of COVID-19 makes it clearer, as people worship God from home, meaning that we are the church, not the building.

So back to my question, “Why are people leaving the church?”. We have already established that I and you are the church. So why are we hurting each other to the extent that we become enemies, and yet we are in the same body of Christ? I am not even talking about so many slanders and abuse of power from our leaders and pastors.

I was once badly hurt and disappointed with the way I was treated in church and I decided to take time out but kept my faith, but I thank God for restoring my faith and giving me a better understanding of what church is all about…

Excerpt from the book, “Church, Why people are leaving you”. It is now available in the ebook format on selar via the link, https://selar.co/x26p, and at a very affordable price.