Statement by Bro. Steve Pixler

[TheLegalist]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I think this is a different discussion altogether. There are extreme cases where we have to disfellowship someone, but they are exceedingly rare (far more rare than those who practice this regularly would purport), AND those cases refer to believers who have strayed; not sinners who have never known Christ.

Do you have a scripture reference that calls us to shun sinners who have never known Christ?

nope... My point was to people who deny the truth.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by TheLegalist

nope... My point was to people who deny the truth.

I can't think of any people who fall into that category with whom I have close fellowship. Usually folks like that will pull themselves away from the pack--no one has to publicly disfellowship them. There are some cases when they are interested in sowing seeds of discord among the saints in a church, [overthrowing the faith of some] and in those cases I can see where a pastor would need to make a public statement or take a more extreme stance.