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Originally Posted by votivesoul
And that's the truth. And because it's the truth (i.e. put that wicked person away from you), something like ex-communication/disfellowship/shunning had better be for the right reasons only.
If there is no provable sin and yet a person is dismissed from fellowship by a personal grudge (or etc.) then the group doing the ex-communicating is in deep trouble with the Lord.
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Indeed. Cases of putting people out of the church for any reason other than provable sin seems to put that church at risk of being disfellowshipped by God himself...