WHAT MAKES A CHURCH WELCOMING?
Romans 14.1-12
Romans: The People Grace Creates – Part 8 of 11
v. 1 “Accept him whose faith is weak …” (niv)
Mark 7.19 “… he declared all foods clean.” (esv)
Colossians 2.16–17 “… a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath … are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.” (esv)
v. 6 “The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.” (esv)
Romans 15.1 “We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak …” (esv)
v. 1 “… not to quarrel over opinions.” (esv)
WHEN CONSCIENCE DIVIDES WE LOVE BECAUSE …
ALL OF US HAVE BEEN Accepted By God
v. 3b “… God has welcomed him.” (esv)
John 7.37 “Jesus stood up and cried out, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.’” (esv)
John 6.37 “… whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” (esv)
ALL OF US ARE Growing In Our Faith
v. 5 “Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.” (esv)
My Conviction:
* ISN’T Sinning AGAINST GOD
* IS Honoring TO ϴ
* IS Fitting FOR ME RIGHT NOW
Psalm 84.5 & 7 “Blessed are those whose strength is in you … They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God …” (esv)
ALL OF US ARE Preparing To Stand Before God
v. 8 “… whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” (esv)
v. 10 “For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God …” (esv)
v. 9 “Christ died and returned to life for this: that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.” (csb)
ALL OF US HAVE One Master Who Never Fails
v. 4 “It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.”(esv)