Relationships between members of the Body of Christ are as sacramental and important as marriage relationships, therefore every church split is as serious as a divorce. Agree or disagree? Please share your opinion.
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Journey to Theosis 
The question is… why have you and your “new church” caused a split?
The truth is, neither I, nor my friends have split any church. It is true that City on a Hill Church, which will launch this summer, has got a lot of attention, much of which was unexpected. Because of this attention, the reality is that many people will transfer to City on a Hill from different local churches. There is no one specific church that split because of City on a Hill. The relationship between City on a Hill leadership and the leadership of other local churches will be as loving and respectful as possible on both sides.
As for me, I am a member of a local church in Oklahoma and will be joining City on a Hill Church upon my family’s move to Washington.
This is as far as I can go publicly, if you would like to talk about this privately, my email is lovegod.lovepeople@gmail.com
Respectfully,
-Sergey Smal
I can relate to Yanas sentiments, because I have seen and been on both sides of the equations.
There are two reasons that cause church splits amongst Slavic Churches and they are not in any particular order. Because we have not learned the power of multiplication and are stuck and in love with division, lol. The church leadership is hung up on thinking that they should be in control of everything from beginning to end and they should dictate everything and at all times so as a result the youth gets frustrated and actually fall in love with God and out of a desire to please God have no choice but to leave because they feel stagnated in the church.
Another reason is that as soon as your feet hit American soil you are now thinking different, seeing different, hearing different, while our elderly leadership thinks that things have been frozen in time denying the possibility of evolution of the church, human, culture, society. I have found it quite humorous when my 78 year old dad who lived only 2 years of his life as an infant uses words taught to him by his elders as they learned the word PRE-WORLD WAR II and no matter how much I try to explain that no such word exists any longer he insists that we the new generation are mistaken. There is a cultural clash that exists between mom and dad and their kids that will always pull us in different directions.
I would like to see these “NEW PLANTS” among the Slavics occur as a result of quietly slipping away and begin evangelizing and saving lost souls rather than engage in the “IMPORTATION” of members from other churches. But with the same token I loathe the idea that someone has to go to a church pastor and ask him permission to attend another church or the “Bratstvo” declare another church off limits even threatening ex-communication, this to me is COMICAL.
All Slavic Churches should have already launched parallel english speaking congregations. 20 years from now all the kids will be gone because they dont understand Russian or Ukrainian or any other native language and the youth will have gone because they dont understand the mentality of the older generation etc. etc. and if they dont have their own kids in an english speaking congregation take over these massive buildings they will become community recreation centers. Such occurred in the USSR by force and it will occur in USA because of shortsightedness.
WHERE DO I STOP!!!