Apostasy
I have been pondering the occurrence of personal apostasy for sometime. Over the summer, I learned of an acquaintance that made the decision to leave the church. Not just the inactivity of not attending meetings but asked for her name to be removed from the records of the church. This was neither the first nor the last such story I have heard over the years, but I think the shock and dismay over this situation touched me to the core. I never for a million years would have expected this woman to leave the church, leave her husband and wish to raise her youngest children outside of the principles of the gospel.
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