I’m Xavier LeMond, and I know what it feels like to sit in church week after week, doing all the “right” things — and still feel like something vital is missing. For years, I chased promises of belonging and purpose, but all too often found myself frustrated, disappointed, and burned out. But everything changed when God revealed a striking truth to me: He never asked for my performance; He just wanted my heart.

That realization eventually turned into my mission. I help believers move out of the routines, rules, striving, and guilt that have kept them distant from the very God who loves them. Through my book “Out of Religion & Into Relationship: Connecting With God Beyond the Church Walls”, my podcast, “The Ekklesian”(returning in December!), and Kingdom Alignment Coaching, I show others what it means to engage directly with God every day — to hear His voice, walk in His Spirit, and live freely on Earth as sons and daughters of the Kingdom of Heaven.

My message is simple but confrontational: the system we call “Church” was never meant to replace your intimacy with the Father. Christ restored what you and I were created for: direct connection with God — no middlemen, no masks, no dogma or rituals that drain the life out of your faith. And when you encounter God personally, everything changes. You stop striving to please Him out of your own efforts and start living in provision from His abiding presence.

The people who find me are often wounded, skeptical, or spiritually exhausted. Sometimes all three. They’ve been told to try harder, serve more, pray longer, or flagellate themselves to please God, but those things never work in the long run. After they’ve exhausted themselves, their hearts are still disconcerted and anguished. What they’re really searching for isn’t another sermon, motivation, or mindfulness formula — they somehow know that they need to connect with God on a real and deeper level.

If that’s you, you’re not crazy and you’re not alone. You’re simply responding to a stronger call — a clarion call to relationship, restoration, and Kingdom purpose. My role is to help you heal from the weight of religion, recognize His voice, and rediscover what it means to walk with God face-to-face. Why? Because it is in intimate relationship with God that the Holy Spirit transforms you from within. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t transform yourself. And God’s not asking you to.

So, if any of this resonates with you, I pray you’ll find something here that you’re looking for. Sometimes, leaving Church means finding God. And your tribe — specifically, the Ekklesia — the called-out ones who’ve left performance behind to embrace the freedom that comes through intimacy with God. Let His Spirit lead you and you’ll be fine. Blessings!