Treading the Thin Line Between Consecration and Communion in the Cultural Milieu of the Church Organisation

While I do not intend to ramble here, desiring lesser words of mine, but allowing the suggestive meaning behind the title of this post to reveal the truth behind what I am referring to, with regards to the following (rhetorical) questions:

(1)  Why do some members of the Church, when, after having been nurtured in the faith, and in the company of fellow members, decide to part ways with the main body of fellow members ?

(2)  Why is the perception that those who part company with their fellow members and their regular church organisation, viewed as brethren who have fallen short, or returned to darkness ?

(3)  Why do members of the main body of the Church not regard the testimony of individuals who, for the sake of their message to those remaining bound to the ways of the organisation, though having departed the regular company of their brethren, continually engage them on matters of the state of their faith ?

These are some burning questions that I hold in store concerning this topic of relations within the Church organisation today.  This post is, in a way, influenced by a fellow brethren's personal thoughts over the same matter, as well as a response from my own personal observations of the situation in my own local church.

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