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Jason Helopoulos provides a guest post on Kevin DeYoung’s blog, DeYoung, Restless And Reformed.

…there is biblical warrant and there are practical reasons for entering into covenant through local church membership. Having entered into that covenant our breaking of it should never be done lightly. Clearly, there are reasons to leave a local church. But what are they? I have been thinking about this for the past ten years and this is my attempt at answering the question:

Here’s a summary of the reasons, all of these are briefly expanded in the original post:

Good Reasons for Moving On – The Four P’s
1) Providential moving
2) Planting another church
3) Purity has been lost
4) Peace of the church is in jeopardy due to my presence

Possible Reasons for Moving On – The Three S’s
1) Spouse
2) Special Needs
3) Special Gifts

Reasons Often Used Which Are Insufficient
1) Children’s ministry
2) Buzz
3) Youth group
4) Church has changed
5) New pastor
6) I’m not being ministered to
7) Music

Read Good Reasons For Moving On at DeYoung, Restless And Reformed.