This sounds a lot like how fundamentalist Christians view relationships. Have to avoid hanging out with people who might contaminate me. It's juvenile and immature to live within this fear. They have forgotten that we are to live as missionaries to the people and places around us. What kind of Faith do we have if it's in jeopardy of being lost by simply being with people, the kind Jesus want's us to love. We are playing the "weak" card too much.
"......he (Jesus) was not you ordinary evangelical guy. He was notorious (yes, that`s the right word) for hanging out with the wrong types. In contrast with today when so much of our Christianity is being with the right people in the right places at the right times, Jesus was always in the wrong places, with the wrong people, at the wrong times, according to the religious establishment."
(The Shaping If Things To Come. Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch. Hendrickson, 2003, Pg 114)
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