A church’s primary role is to help you grow and strengthen your faith. The leadership and the congregation should all be focused on helping members of the church draw closer to God. This is nearly impossible to do when your church keeps changing the rules on you. 

Shifting theology is especially common today when churches are desperate to retain old members and struggling to attract new ones. As such, the church’s theology tends to begin shifting in an effort to seem more attractive to those who may be considering joining the church. The basics of the theology rarely change, but the devil is in the details more than ever. This is especially true when it comes to hot button issues in the political arena. Since many people today demonize those who do not agree with them 100 percent, churches may alter their official theology in order to avoid the ire of the modern thought-police. Such a wishy-washy place is not going to help you strengthen your faith, especially since you will need others to have your back when your Christian convictions will almost inevitably cause you to need to face down the secular lynch mob.