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Jukebox Studio, here we go. Is shunning a biblical concept? If so, what would be a biblical

example of shunning? Is it related to excommunication? Okay, that's a great question.

Shunning is not the same that you would, it's, it is biblical, but it's not done by Christian

churches the same way that you would see it done, it is biblical, but it's not done by Christian churches the same way

that you would see it done by certain cults. Okay. So even Matthew 18, church discipline that

ultimately culminates, if there's no repentance, it culminates in excommunication. Well, what does

it say, right? You go to your brother between you and him alone privately. If he listens,

you've won your brother over. If not, bring one or two others along with you so the testimony may be established

upon the evidence of two or three witnesses. And if he doesn't listen to them, you tell it to the

church. If he doesn't listen, even to the church, then treat him as a tax collector or a Gentile.

A tax collector or a Gentile. A tax collector or a Gentile

is not an untouchable. So it's not like in India with this class system and there's certain

people that you just can't even speak to. A Christian without doing anything immoral,

a Christian is permitted by God to speak and even have some degree of

relationship, even perhaps a certain degree of friendship with a tax collector and a Gentot.

Of course. What do you do with a tax collector and a Gentile? You preach the gospel to them.

You don't shun them entirely. It's not an all-encompassing shunning. So there is a shunning in the sense

that we are no longer extending to this individual Christian brotherhood. I'm no longer regarding

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