I too have chosen to stay and fight for my church. There are too many decent people there to just abandon them. I’ve found that if you speak up there are others who didn’t have the courage to speak up and will be glad you did.
>>I too have chosen to stay and fight for my church. There are too many decent people there to just abandon them. I’ve found that if you speak up there are others who didn’t have the courage to speak up and will be glad you did.
I’ve noticed that too. Many people are sheep. They follow the leader and if the leader leans left, then they do too. If another voice speaks up, then they have to choose who to follow and then their conscience (aka the Holy Spirit) has a chance to be heard.
No matter how many "decent" people there may be that you hate to leave, you need to decide whether they are open to salvation or not. If not, Paul advises us to "shake the dust from our sandals" and move on to where the opportunity to help the lost find salvation.
Don't cast your "pearls before swine."
I say this as a friend who has been in such a situation. I left, my husband stayed until he witnessed his baby granddaughter be baptized by a female pastor who refused to baptize "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" for it was "too paternalistic!"
Following that, he left and never looked. He finally realized that he was the only one in the sanctuary that seemed to notice that it was non-biblical.
In the Book of Revelation, John quotes Jesus as saying of the Laodocian Church that was "lukewarm" He would "spew out of His mouth."