The Pastors of the church my family goes to tells the congregation that the majority of the people who leave that church are abjects and the congregation should cut off all ties to them, even if they're related to them somehow. The people who have left (quite a lot over the years, and my family has been going there for 30 years), have left because they felt they weren't growing anymore, they were tired of church politics, felt God calling them elsewhere, were offended somehow, or fell back into sin. Only a couple of people that left still talk badly about the church and try to cause division and encourage people to leave before they get sucked into the drama. But the Pastor's continue to preach over the pulpit that the congregation needs to cut everyone who left off, including family that have left, and will say those people didn't hear from God-they were just looking for an excuse to leave. It got to the point where the leaders in ministry were instructed to look at everyone's social media to find out if ministry members were still tied to those who've left and if they were-they were removed from ministry until ties were cut. Leadership calls everyone who left abjects. I am in no way bashing the Pastor's there, i believe they are anointed and called by God, but i am truly struggling with this topic. What does the Bible say about abjects? Are those who leave church to go to another church or to pursue other things truly abjects? Is cutting people, family included, because they leave church justified or Biblical?