[George W. Bush]

“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us” (2 Thess. 3:6).

Sound teaching and aptly quoted. I've always wondered if this verse justifies second-degree separation among Baptists.

I have separated from my local church, no longer able to ignore the heretics and the dramatists and other confused persons there. They resist any teaching of sound doctrine and are simply too ignorant of scripture and Baptist history to operate a Baptist church. But I'm not certain if second-degree separation is fully scriptural.

[fortheDeclaration]

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us” (2 Thess. 3:6). Sound teaching and aptly quoted. I've always wondered if this verse justifies second-degree separation among Baptists. I have separated from my local church, no longer able to ignore the heretics and the dramatists and other confused persons there. They resist any teaching of sound doctrine and are simply too ignorant of scripture and Baptist history to operate a Baptist church. But I'm not certain if second-degree separation is fully scriptural.

Yes, in context, that verse is speaking of those who are really immoral (do not work), not with those who we have some doctrinal differences.

However, in the case of the modern neo-Evangelical movement, with its compromises with the World, I do think biblical separation is called for.