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JW'S and SDA'S are big time shunners and their tactics are similar to those used by diehard trinitarians.Some Christian sects practice shunning in some degree..
Do you agree with this practice?
What is the scriptural justification (or refutation) for this?
Are they getting it wrong, and why?
Yes, but it should be only done when, after a long period of time, an "issue" with a fellow Christian has been clearly, succinctly, exactly, graciously, and compassionately addressed. Not only this, but it has to come about that the problematic individual has refused to concede to a moral problem that everyone knows beyond the shadow of the doubt that he is continually perpetuating and, by which, he is on some level causing an uncomfortable moral tension or disturbance within the congregation.Some Christian sects practice shunning in some degree..
Do you agree with this practice?
What is the scriptural justification (or refutation) for this?
Are they getting it wrong, and why?
Some Christian sects practice shunning in some degree..
Do you agree with this practice?
What is the scriptural justification (or refutation) for this?
Are they getting it wrong, and why?
CF Terms and Rules said:Do not personally attack (insult, belittle, mock, ridicule) other members or groups of members on CF, or use nicknames to do so.
The Scriptural justification would be Matthew 18:15-19:What is the scriptural justification (or refutation) for this?
Matthew 18:15-19 said:15 “Now if your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that on the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be confirmed. 17 And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, he is to be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. 18 Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
19 “Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them [v]by My Father who is in heaven. 20 For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”
1 Corinthians 5 said:It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife. 2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
3 For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 I have decided to turn such a person over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the evil person from among yourselves.
The only time you should stay away from another sinner, is only when you yourself are struggling too much with your own temptations to sin or misbehave because of them.Some Christian sects practice shunning in some degree..
Do you agree with this practice?
What is the scriptural justification (or refutation) for this?
Are they getting it wrong, and why?
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