Is It Time to Leave? The Church Evaluation Checklist: 32 Scripture-Anchored Criteria Across 3 Tiers - That Tell You Whether to Stay, Engage, or Go

Is your church making you feel like the problem for asking theological questions?

You drive home from Sunday service and something sits wrong. The sermon wasn't technically heretical. The people are warm. You can't point to one thing and call it the problem. So you do what serious Christians do — you turn the interrogation on yourself. Am I being divisive? Have I read too much Reformed theology and now nothing measures up? Your pastor calls it overthinking. Your friends say you're too intense. And somewhere underneath all of it is a quieter, harder fear: what if I'm right?

This checklist was built for that exact moment. Using the same marks the Reformers, Puritans, and Jonathan Edwards actually applied — not personal preference, not style, not church size — it gives you a scored, scripture-anchored evaluation of your church's real theological health, and a clear decision guide: stay and invest, stay and engage, or leave wisely.

✅ 10 Red Flags that signal non-negotiable failure — mark 3 or more and the decision guide activates immediately

✅ 12 Yellow Flags that reveal serious drift before it becomes a crisis

✅ 10 Green Flags drawn from the historic Protestant marks of a true church — what you're actually looking for

✅ A weighted scoring formula (−30 to +20) that produces a composite picture, not just a feeling

✅ A 3-path Decision Guide with honest, practical counsel for whatever your score reveals

Four hundred years of Protestant ecclesiology. 32 pages. $7.99.

Your unease is data. This tool helps you read it — stop second-guessing, and start seeing clearly.