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Separation From the World, Not Segregation

Many people read that passage of Scripture and think it is talking about what they call separation from the world. This passage is talking about separation from the world, but not segregation from the world. However, some people read this passage and begin practicing segregation from the world, and they think that is separation from the world and its ways. (There is a vast difference between separation and segregation.)
These people read Second Corinthians 6:14-17, and then they think that they can’t have anything to do with the world or with anyone in the world.
Believers are in the world, but Jesus said they are not of the world (John 17:16). Believers are not to segregate themselves from the world, or how could they be the salt of the earth and the light of the world? However, on the other hand, they are to be separate from the world and not adopt the world’s standards (2 Cor. 6:17); they are to be like Jesus or they couldn’t be the salt of the earth, nor the light of the world either.
We are in the world, but not of the world (John 17:12-16). Some people try to segregate themselves from the world, but we are not to do that because that is unscriptural. Believers are Called ‘Righteousness’ and ‘Light’.

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