1st Timothy 4:1-5

In my over thirty years of being a pastor, I have experienced people leaving this church and Christianity on occasion. Some were people who had been in church all or most of their lives who just decided one day they no longer believed in God...that they had been duped by their parents...by their churches...by me...that their heads had been filled with lies and nonsense. They become Ex-Christians or at the very least Exvangelicals. They start posting on social media or in their blogs anything that in their minds debunks and ridicules Christianity or at least Evangelical Christian values and this type of thing very much appears on the rise...how do we explain what is happening? Today's text addresses why this happens.