Excommunication is when a member is expelled, put out, or dis-fellowshipped (all these terms mean the same) from the 2×2 church, and they are no longer allowed to attend services. <\/p>\n
Shunning often follows. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them<\/em> (Rom. 16:17).<\/p>\n The term Standing Down or stood down<\/em> is used in some areas and means not taking an active part in fellowship meetings, while still attending them.<\/p>\n Conditions for Fellowship:<\/strong> When Workers have stepped over the line, some are given Conditions For Fellowship<\/strong> they must follow if they want to remain in the work. Ed Cooney and John Long were given Conditions for Fellowship.<\/em> (See Conditions for Fellowship given to Truitt Oyler and Bob Ingram<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excommunication is when a member is expelled, put out, or dis-fellowshipped (all these terms mean the same) from the 2×2 church, and they are no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}