why is it hard to release a man who received a divine instruction to move to another church.The duty of leaders is to make leaders and not to make followers.

From the experience I had in my former church.

People that the leadership do not want to release are usually people that are close to the ministry and/or have been there for a while.

The Pastor of that church preaches a lot about walking in love, steering clear from offence, covetousness, submission to spiritual authority, etc.

After hammering this message of love into the heads of the congregation over the years, they have come to be very suspicious of people who want to leave, especially people who are close to the ministry, the reason being that they believe that it is very easy to be offended when you hear a lot of messages about refusing to be offended, ironically.

Worse still, they have developed this warped ideology that if you hear from God about leaving independent of them, you probably didn't hear God; you are probably listening to the "counsel of the ungodly", it is out of covetousness, blahblahblah.

So from their vantage point of spiritual authority, they want to lord everything over you, including when and if you leave.

Its very very pathetic.

I KNOW OF SOMEBODY IN SUCH A SITUATION NOW.HE IS FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO TELL HIS PASOR.SENTIMENT, WHAT DO U THINK

mmm let them get loyalty cards then

They dont want to release their faithful servants.