disaffiliate

One outcome is that many people are disaffiliating from their churches, their belief systems, and their communities.

Many churches began disaffiliating under a temporary measure approved in 2019 that let churches keep their properties under favorable conditions.

Some are proposing that African and other churches be given the same chance that U.S. churches recently had to disaffiliate under favorable terms.

Most of its bishops favor staying, but other voices are calling for regional conferences to disaffiliate.

Pastor Scott now leads Dwelling Place Anaheim, a church which recently disaffiliated from the Vineyard USA movement.