Paul Begins Discussion on Church Unity (TMF:1844)

Thursday, May 05, 2022
Peace to Live By: Paul Begins Discussion on Church Unity (TMF:1844) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul states, “As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables” (Romans 14:1, 2, ESV). Paul is now moving into a new discussion. In the last half of chapter 13, he had been discussing how we should live holy lives as we simply don’t know when the end is going to come for us. It was like what Jesus would say, when he told us to “Watch.” Anyhow, here to begin chapter 14, Paul is moving into church unity really, how brothers and sisters with varying backgrounds are supposed to live with each other. In Paul’s time, at the time each of these new churches were being established, they were each founded city by city, city by city. And that’s an important point. It means that the groups of believers at that time had a vast variety of different kinds of people within them. There were no denominations within a single city like we have today. It would be like today if we took all the believers in Columbus and just made one church, abolishing any differences in doctrine and what not. That’s the picture here of the church in Rome.