The shared center — held across the tradition
Separation from evil is God's principle of unity.
The formula is James Taylor Senior's and it is the whole system: the body is one because it is separate, and anything that touches the defiled defiles. Every practice that outsiders find extreme is this sentence applied without exception.
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You do not eat with those outside the fellowship.
From the 1960s the doctrine of separation was extended to the table, on 1 Corinthians 5:11. It governs restaurants, workplaces, weddings and the family kitchen, and it is why a withdrawal from is not only a matter of church attendance.
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