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“Be Ye Holy”: The Call to Christian Separation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bring up the topic of Christian holiness today and you will get many differing definitions. Bring up the subject of “separation” and you may be either glibly dismissed or violently opposed. Sometimes seen as narrow, bigoted, non-progressive, and even impractical, separation is often disdainfully called “legalism.” But a scriptural study of holiness reveals that separation is an integral part of...

in fact, been a major distinctive of the movement. Fundamentalists have consistently affirmed separatism as a biblical principle. They assert that separatism cannot be repudiated as a strategy because it is founded in biblical theology and is plainly commanded by Scripture. The New Evangelicals are now concerned that their movement “may be less certain of its direction and identity.”4 It appears also that some younger fundamentalists have lost some of the vision, discernment, and direction that characterized
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