I have found some churches deny the withdrawal of membership while under church discipline. Biblical guide to leaving a church with minimum guilt or doubt.You are allowed to resign from a church whenever you wish to do so, no matter what your covenant, church constitution or designated church leader says. There are other evidences to support local church membership in the Scriptures. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. The Bible contains at least five strands of evidence for local church membership. Any closing prayer should encapsulate what you want to leave the congregation with, such as faith, peace, or wisdom. It used to be common for constitutions and bylaws of Baptist churches to include a dissolution clause. Only professing members present at the meeting may vote. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.