This form is a sample letter in Word format covering the subject matter of the title of the form.
This form is a sample letter in Word format covering the subject matter of the title of the form.
What is it called to formally remove a person from a church membership? Well, if you're Catholic, you excommunicate. That means the excommunicated member is treated as a stranger by the church and can no longer receive the sacraments. If you're Protestant, you disfellowship.
It refers to removing someone from membership in the church and participation in the Lord's Supper. To excommunicate is to ex-communion someone, kind of like a reverse baptism.
“Exclusion” would involve the removal of an offending individual from the rolls of the particular congregation of which they are a member, but without any statement to the broader Christian community about whether the individual is to be regarded as converted or not.
The noun excommunication is a formal way of describing what happens when someone gets kicked out of his or her church, for good. Excommunication is really a kind of banishment, a punishment that's handed out by a church when one of its members breaks some important church rule.
Excommunication, form of ecclesiastical censure by which a person is excluded from the communion of believers, the rites or sacraments of a church, and the rights of church membership but not necessarily from membership in the church as such.
``Thank you for reading my letter. I am no longer willing to attend church events, listen to religious instruction or submit to religious authority. I am no longer a Christian and will no longer contribute to this church. Please respect my wishes and vote me out.
A withdrawal is a unilateral and unfounded breaking with the church of which one is a member. One simply resigns, either by telling the ward elders or by writing a letter to the consistory. A church may for a while make no announcement regarding the withdrawal, but in time an announcement will be made.
Dear RECIPIENT NAME, I regret to inform you that I am ending my membership at Church named NAME as of today. I have given this decision careful consideration. And as you may have already known, a conflict of views between NAME 1 and mine makes my practice of my faith here difficult.