associate with them until they repent and stop teaching heresy or making false prophesies.

I'm afraid that showing kindness to people who have sinned in the past but who have repented of that sin is not practiced too much in Micronesia today because it conflicts with culture.  But where culture conflicts with God's Word, it is wrong.  If a brother is not repentant they are to be warned two or three times.  They are to be confronted with the sin with one, then two or three witnesses.  If they are still unrepentant, the Bible says they should be disfellowshiped from the church and given over to Satan for a season.  There is good reason for this.  If someone is unrepentant or living in habitual sin, if they are allowed to just continue to fellowship with those who are following Christ, they will believe that what they are doing is really okay.  They may also infect others with their sin.  It is better for them to find out what it is like to live in darkness for awhile, because chances are that they will come to their senses through tragedy and really come back to the Lord. 

But when a brother or sister in the Lord are repentant and in need of live and kindness we must "take up the towel" of kindness and mercy!

I know a man who was in need of being disfellowshiped from a church.  I feared for his soul. He was living in sin and unrepentant.  Yet the church was just ignoring him and talking behind his back.  The church should  have been up front with him.  Either put him out of the church entirely for being an unrepentant sinner -- or if he is repentant WASH HIS FEET! 

I heard a story about an associate pastor of a big church in the US whose teenage daughter became pregnant outside of marriage.  The senior pastor of the church demanded that the associate pastor go before the whole church and tell them what his daughter had done.  Because he was being obedient to the senior pastor, he did it, but this devastated his daughter.  It broke the family's heart.  The congregation wallowed (like a pig who rolls around in the mud) in all the details of the poor teenage girl's sin.  A year later the senior pastor's daughter also became pregnant out of wedlock.  But the senior pastor did not follow his own advice and did everything in his power to cover it . It seems very easy to throw dirt into the wind but when some of it gets on you, you begin to understand what it is like to need love and mercy.  Jesus also taught the concept of comfort -- in this case comfort of sins removed.  In 1 Cor. 5 we read the story of a man in the church who fell into the terrible sin of incest.  Evidently the man was unrepentant because Paul directed the church to turn him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh (and hopefully to the saving of his spirit).  Paul did not say the man was lost and going to hell.  No, he wanted him isolated from fellowship and given over to Satan's devices so that he would remember what it was like to live in darkness and perhaps come to the end of his rope, to his wit's end, and be driven back to repentance.  Later, in 2 Cor. 2, Paul found the same man had become repentant and that the church had forgiven him.  Satan had, indeed, brought him to despair.  The lust of his flesh had been broken and he had come back repentant.  And now Paul writes to the Corinthian church "... you ought rather to forgive him, lest such a one as this be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.  Wherefore I ask you that you would confirm your live toward him". (2 Cor. 2:7-8)  The church came together and comforted this man.  The world gives us just the opposite picture and teaches us the wrong way to deal with these issues. 

Look at how when a politician announces he is running for office, the press turns into a swarm of mosquitoes, trying to bother him and dig up anything from his past life that looks a little bit dirty.  When they find it they print it in all the headlines for all to see.  Even politicians and political parties do this to each other.  You especially see this during election time.  This world has gone crazy with slander!  TV is full of talk shows featuring gossip, exposure, mockery.  The wicked seem to get a thrill from destroying people, families and reputations.  The more dirty the dirt, the more people like it. 

This kind of thing has NO PLACE in God's church!  The church ought to be different.  It ought to be a house of cleansing.  I suggest that if you want to restore a brother or sister -- you don't need to know all the details of how that person got dirty.  Jesus didn't ask his disciples "How did you get such dirty feet?" He wanted only to