Cheryl Schatz

Paula,
I agree with you about not looking back.  But I could not imagine myself handing someone over to Satan.

Paul had a real struggle with Alexander the coppersmith.  It appears that this Alexander was an apostate since he was teaching that the resurrection had already happened.  This was an issue not of a secondary doctrine but a primary one.

2 Timothy 4:14  Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
2 Timothy 4:15  Be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our teaching.

Those who oppose sound doctrine and oppose us should be avoided.  However I don’t know of anywhere in scripture where we would hand someone over to Satan because they disagree with us on  the secondary issues of faith.  If they are mean to us and nasty, we will probably come to the point where we avoid them altogether and just pray for them.  God has done miracle before and changed people’s hearts.  If I see someone who is particularly nasty and has a mocking spirit I tend to not want to engage them in a dialog.  Those who think that mocking is a spiritual gift are deceived.