So, hubby and I got this wonderful letter in the mail from the last church we attended:

"Greetings in the name of the Lord and Savior.

XXX Baptist Church as reviewed its membership status and due to your lack of attendance, support and interest, your church membership has been dissolved and your name removed from the church roll according to our church discipline. This, therefore, relieves the church of any membership obligation.
Should you desire to be a part of our church family in the future, please know that you may renew your membership by following regular uniting procedures. We hope to hear from you.

_____________________, Chairman, Deacons Ministry
_____________________, Pastor"

All on official letterhead - how fancy! I think I will frame it on put it on the wall as a badge of honor - LOL.

Mind you, we were booted due to "lack of attendance, support (stopped paying tithes) and interest", no mention of that fact that we consider what they are teaching to be lies and distortions (I had this conversation with the pastor's wife as well as some deacon that called). In my conversation with the wife and deacon, they both ended the same way "well, I can see you have done a lot of research, all I know is that I love Jesus". Okay. That's it?

But, thankfully, Yahowah won't find me and my family on any "church rolls", so I feel really good right now!

Recalling a phone conversation from a pastor of a church we sparsely attended over a decade ago, asking if they could consider us members because under 501c3 rules they had to report us as members to the state of Colorado/Feds... I wonder if "This, therefore, relieves the church of any membership obligation" applies? Seems as corporation thier "Lord and Saviour" might be more the state of Alabama ;^)