Last week my friend Rick Howerton opened up his new blogwith a post entitled: "When to Abandon a Small-Group Member." Here was the full text of his post:
    Never! There is…
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    No sin to too decadent
    No opinion too controversial
    No revelation too disturbing
    No sickness too time consuming
    No need too costly
    No conflict too intense
    No addiction too immoral.Â
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    Luke 15:11 - 24
I thought that was a pretty cool sentiment, and so I re-tweeted the link to the post. A few of you re-tweeted it as well.
But then I got the following email from another SmallGroups.com reader:
"Nice sentiment in Howerton’s blog post, but I have to disagree with him. I had to ask a group member to leave once because she would go into rages during the group. I tried meeting with her personally, but she would fly into rages against me. I finally blocked her phone calls because they were giving me panic attacks."
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So, before I give my opinion on this matter, I thought I would open things up to all of you. Is there ever a time when a group leader should "abandon" a group member?
