Accounting for Yourself

June 30, 2013
Dave Marttunen

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Churches don’t always agree on everything!  Has your experience caught up with that reality?  In doctrine, or things essential, we must have agreement to maintain our work and to call each other to obedience in Christ.  But in non-essentials, we have love.  This means we can agree to disagree over some very large issues because there is more that unites us than divides us in Jesus.  The Bible gives us clear guidelines about how we are to disagree and keep our faith.  Using two illustrations; eating meat and drinking wine, the Bible outlines how we are to love each other in disagreements while holding  faith.  The clear line that gives us freedom is this; “judge not another man’s servant.”  As we learn to account for our own lives and to have love between us in Christ, we will learn what it means to agree to disagree in non-essentials.  This is part 34 in our Summer series, "Rooted in Romans."

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