Why Jehovah's Witnesses Disfellowshipping/Shunning is Unscriptural
Jehovah's Witnesses practice an extreme form of shunning that they call disfellowshipping . When a person is baptized and for whatever reason is disfellowshipped, they are to be completely shunned by their friends and family. No communication is allowed except under extreme circumstances, either verbally or electronically through text messages, email or social media. Is this practice scripturally sound? Let's analyze it and find out. Justfying Disfellowshipping Here's the primary passage Jehovah's Witnesses use to justify disfellowshipping, along with a verse-by-verse explanation of what it really says: 1 Cor 5:9-13 (New World Transation) 9 In my letter I wrote you to stop keeping company with sexually immoral people, 10 not meaning entirely with the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people or extortioners or idolaters. Otherwise, you would actually have to get out of the world. 11 But now I am writing you to stop k