@Mark Cambell I haven't been back to a church sinc...

@Mark Cambell I haven't been back to a church since. I too, emailed and asked "why".. there was zero transparency . The person who called me was polite, and nice, but the reasons, and the answers were just white wash. I still, to this da, have no idea why this happened. I loved going to The Vineyard when Pastor Rob was there. It was his(Rob) transparency that drew me in from the first time I visited there with one of my sons and his family! We all really loved attending that church. We all said the same exact thing! Rob just shared his life's experiences and his relationship with Jesus Christ, and that is a great way to share the gospel, in my opinion. Its was this church, and Rob , who actually motivated me to read my Bible from front to back, for the first time in my life and I am 54 now! Rob would always talk about reading three versus , or chapters, or something like that, each day, and you will have read the Bible through in a year! I used the old excuse ..." I just don't understand the Bible, I'm not a good reader...bla, bla, bla..." One day during the usual reminder of , read your Bible, Rob says, " it doesn't matter if you understand what you are reading, GOD understands YOU!" Read it, HE will help you to understand ! It was as if Rob had called me out in front of the whole church, yet, I personally never spoke to Rob face to face, other than passing him and his family up in the hallway one morning. When the pandemic hit, and the very next week I got the email that Rob was no longer going to be with our church, I didn't have a church anymore. And after seeing how so many churches reacted to this whole mess, I still haven't been back to a church. Man has really disappointed me in ways that have never happened to me before, and that seems to be the ongoing theme to this day. The veils are being pulled back on almost a daily bases... I have been reminded in some very big ways, this world is not my home.