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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...

because fundamentalism seems to have focused on personalities more than principle. Some may react against a perceived harshness of spirit in some separatist leaders. Others may weary of the need for perpetual vigilance and militancy, or be discouraged with spokesmen whose focus “goes to seed.” When a ministry’s emphasis shifts from separatism as the complement of evangelism to separatism as an end in itself, that ministry is deadened. Separatists must fear and avoid all of these dangers. However,
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