When someone professing faith lives as an unbeliever, the individual Christian's posture should shift from fellowship mode to outreach mode — still loving and gracious but with different relational goals.
Application of 1 Corinthians 5:11 to personal relationships with professing but lifestyle-unbelieving friends.
Mike uses a mental model: fellowship mode (treating as a brother in the body of Christ) vs. outreach mode (treating as an unbeliever you love and want to reach). He still advocates eating with such people and reaching out, just not treating them as representing Christ to the surrounding community.
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