My Lutheran Story: No One Leaves the Church

By B. Abel Learwellie

Why do people stay in a church that wounded them? What keeps them rooted through silence, struggle, and change?

My Lutheran Story - No One Leaves the Church is a powerful collection of reflections and testimonies from pastors, youth, women, and lay leaders within the Lutheran Church in Liberia. With honesty and hope, it explores the tensions of remaining faithful in an imperfect institution.

Through personal narratives, prophetic insights, and heartfelt laments, this book reveals the deep courage it takes to stay-not out of convenience, but conviction. It honors those who continue to serve, heal, and believe that the Church can still become what God intended it to be.

This is not just a book about staying. It is a call to accountability, unity, and renewal. A declaration that the Church is more than its flaws-and that in every broken place, God is still at work.

Whether you are deeply Lutheran or simply searching for faith in the midst of complexity, these pages will remind you: no one truly leaves the Church. We carry it. We wrestle with it. We reimagine it. And somehow, by grace, we remain because we are the Church.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FR8DMTVT
• ISBN13: 9798264644894
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"