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Page 82 oppressed, I share their oppression so that I might bring them to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone so that I might bring them to Christ. I do all this to spread the Good…
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Page 81 God’s people to conform to your convictions. Be not deceived: There are few things that are more antagonistic to the spirit of Christ than Pharisaism. I think it goes without saying that we are talking about issues of…
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Page 80 To the Strong in Conscience. Exercise your freedom, but do not flaunt it. Neither evangelize or parade it in front of others. Do not criticize or act condescending toward the weak in conscience. Do not call them ,legalistic…
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Page 79 Lord’s work along the way. Paul thunders against the folly of judging someone else’s servant. There is an ancient Indian proverb that says, ,Do not judge another man until you’ve walked two miles in his moccasins. There is…
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Page 78 which he holds. The legalist fails to distinguish between Divine commands and personal application. He universalizes his own personal standards of what is morally acceptable to God. At heart, he is a Pharisee. Consequently, he judges and condemns…
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Page 77 1. The Weak in Conscience. This person is also said to be ,weak in faith. Faith, in this sense, does not refer to saving faith. It rather refers to conviction about non-moral issues. So we can say that…
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Page 76 However, not all Christians realize this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and…
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Page 75 do not condemn themselves by doing something they know is all right. But if people have doubts about whether they should eat something, they shouldn’t eat it. They would be condemned for not acting in faith before God….
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Page 74 live, we live to please the Lord. And when we die, we go to be with the Lord. So in life and in death, we belong to the Lord. Christ died and rose again for this very purpose,…
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Page 73 in the church in Rome; the other was in the church in Corinth. Let us look at both. I would then like to extract from these two scenes some enduring principles that I believe will deliver us from…