"Who's responsible for keeping in touch when you leave the evangelical church?"

I was having this conversation with a friend lately. We both left the evangelical church in deconstruction for different reasons almost a year ago now. We both commented on how we were surprised no one kept in touch or tried to reach out in any meaningful way to see how we're doing or why we left, or at the very least no one even tried to evangelize us and bring us back. Ghost town. We each had just over 100 people in the church every Sunday.

I'm relieved because my goal was to ghost them and disappear. I had as many problems with the fake relationships and us vs. them mentality of evangelical church as I did with questions of theology. However, my friend is different. He left because of theology, but didn't see much of anything wrong with the people. He's not an extrovert so he was hoping people would reach out and continue to do mundane things with him. But he didn't get anymore texts and no one invited him over for a beer.

That led to our conversation. Is is it even worth trying to keep in touch with people when our relationship was based solely on a common faith goal that we no longer agree on? Have any of you made genuine friendships and connections at evangelical church that survived beyond and outside of church? For those relationships that you still wanted to maintain or cultivate, how did you manage that not being a member or evangelical anymore? Was it worth it to you?