The second time when its OK to Be a Quitter is when people are doing the wrong thing.

Sometimes even groups of people founded on a good premise can morph into groups that do the wrong thing. Groups of not-necessarily-bad teen agers have turned into drunken masses when someone got the bad idea to take a wrong turn. History is full of splinter groups from churches that started out loving Jesus and turned into sex and suicide saturated footnotes of history.

A few years ago a pastor whom I loved and been taught by for five years said in one of his sermons that homosexual behavior wasn’t a sin. (Clearly unBiblical and a position I’m told he has recently publicly recanted.) I didn’t leave the church. I engaged the elders. Because the topic was hot and the conversation was too painful they abdicated their responsibility to deal with it. (A temptation any of us would face.) Ultimately my pastor sent me an email in which he said that I just needed to “submit.” Hmmm. Funny how parts of an Evangelical’s Bible have authority and other parts don’t, isn’t it.

I led my family away from that congregation. You’ve got to know when to quit.

Coming up in the next post: The third time when its OK to be a quitter.