I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. –1 Corinthians 5:11 (KJV)

He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation. –Mark 3:29 (KJV)

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WesleyGospel, “Biblical Shunning vs. The Silent Treatment.”

Medium, “Does Shunning Exist in the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church?”

Regular Baptist Ministries, “Shunning.” There is absolutely no Biblical support for IFB people to shun Pentecostals, either 1. for the cause of upholding cessationism (deism and unbelief, 1 Corinthians 14:1), or 2. for the cause of eternal security (usually with a no-lordship cheap grace and antinomian idea, 1 Timothy 1:19-20). But it seems that these are nevertheless the reasons why IFB people choose to shun Pentecostals. They conclude that its all supported by Romans 16:17 (KJV): “I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” But again this doesn’t stand up to contextual Bible interpretation: “For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple” (Romans 16:18). In other words, the Bible teaches here exactly what it teaches in 1 Corinthians 5:11: that antinomian preachers with morally lax attitudes are the ones who are supposed to be shunned. There’s absolutely no support in Romans 16:17 for a Baptist to shun a charismatic or a person who believes you can lose your salvation if you stop walking in the Spirit. That’s really bad hermeneutics and just plain rudeness and intolerance to other members of the true body of Christ: especially if you have reason to believe that those charismatics are godly people.

J. Gordon Melton, “Shunning,” Encyclopedia of American Religions, p. 88.

The Shunning. Hallmark Channel, 2011. (based on the Beverly Lewis book).

Ronald Enroth, Churches That Abuse.

Thomas C. Oden, Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry. HarperOne, 1983.

Robert Graves, ed, Strangers to Fire: When Tradition Trumps Scripture.

Roger Olson, The Westminster Handbook of Evangelical Theology, p. 293.