Cagle Grams: What is shunning?

James H. Cagle Guest Columnist “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed” (2 Thessalonians 3:14 KJV). “Shunning” is a church doctrine. It is found in the church epistles. But it is practiced by almost no religious group but the Mennonites. Shunning “is a practice of completely shutting out from all intercourse with the faithful of those who have been excommunicated from the congregation. This meant that the faithful were neither to eat, drink, visit, buy, nor sell with any excommunicated person.” Shunning was done to remove the disobedient member from the fellowship of other believers, th