formally sharing their Christian identity with nonbelievers. He tells them not to be “yoked together with unbelievers” since light and darkness have no fellowship (2 Cor. 6:14). Just as God wanted a clear line between Israel and other nations, so God requires a clear, bright line between the church and the world: “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you” (2 Cor. 6:17). There’s nothing blurry about that boundary. 7) The life and authority of
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