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At the top of my list of kinds of people to avoid is the kind of people who make lists of people to avoid!
lol so true
At the top of that list could be (should be) “religious” (self-righteous) church people.
No, Steve, even Jesus didn’t avoid those people. (Though they probably wished he did sometimes …)
Ray,
You are right. They ought be engaged and told what self-obsessed hypocrites they are, and how they are leading people away from the Living Christ and towards a sickly man-made religion.
I wonder if it’s the list from Romans 1? Except they miss the point. You’re supposed to lead them to Christ, no matter the sinner. I think there is something about not eating with someone, but that would be a ‘carnal’ christian/backslider, not a pagan who has never known.
Matthew:
15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
Even that doesn’t mean to not associate with them
I’d make the top 10!
Ah, here it is …
“I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.” (1 Corinthians 5:9-11)
Of course, if we followed Paul’s teaching here to the letter, we might have to avoid most of the people inside the congregations, rather than most of those outside …
Thank you, that’s the one I was thinking of. He’s talking about professing christians living in sin. They need to repent even more, because people look to them as mirrors.
And actually, the guy who goes out preaching usually uses Mark 1:14
I don’t know if our church has a verse on their little sign or not. It’s probably not john 3:16.