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Romans 14:1-23
“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. ~ Romans 14:11-12
You know, your love may be tested more by Christians who disagree with you than by unbelievers who persecute you. It takes a diamond to cut a diamond.
What should you do when your brother or sister disagrees with you about how God's people ought to live? Well, first of all, there's acceptance. Not all believers are mature, and love demands that the mature members of the family defer to the immature. Love protects people and gives them a chance to grow up. People may be difficult, but we must accept them in love for the Lord's sake.
We'll read about accountability. See, we have no right to judge and condemn one another because the judge is the Lord. Each believer will have enough to do in keeping his own account right without interfering with others accounts. And then there's ambition. Our desire must not be to get everybody to agree with us.
Our desire must be to pursue peace, not cause others to stumble and help others to mature, in Christ. What starts as grieving can become offending and making weak and causing others to stumble and fall. The result might be destroying a brother or sisters faith, is destroying another just to have your own way worth it?
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