[fwdude]

As John Stott put it, the faithful remnant was always in the Church, never outside it.

Sounds like a license to excuse or tolerate any sin. And John Stott is not Scripture, which never endorses unity over error.

When they force me to participate in their sins, then I'll leave.

Then you'll have to define "participate." I think a strong case can be made that mere association with a sinning body is participation. Where do you think a portion of your offering goes?

[The Grammarian]

Sounds like a license to excuse or tolerate any sin. And John Stott is not Scripture, which never endorses unity over error.

Sounds like a call to stay in and reform rather than cut and run. Here is one evangelical Methodist theologian's response to calls for further schism: Do Not Rashly Tear Asunder.

Then you'll have to define "participate." I think a strong case can be made that mere association with a sinning body is participation. Where do you think a portion of your offering goes?

Cast that net too broadly and every American citizen who pays taxes is guilty of all sorts of sins.

[The Grammarian]

And I should also point out that the quotation from John Stott is precisely to do with Scripture’s understanding of unity—it was delivered to rebut Dr Lloyd-Jones’ call for evangelicals to leave the Church of England at a gathering of English evangelicals (both CoE and not) back in the 1960s.