Doctrine: You must receive every Christian brother with respect and affection, even while you believe he is wrong on some religious matters.
FIVE CONSIDERATIONS (14.1-3a)
1. Two Kinds of Brethren (weak, strong). 2. Two Examples of Differences (diet, holy days). 3. Two Extremes of Interpretation (all things doubtful, nothing doubtful). Tests of doubtful things include (strong and sincere feelings of being right not a test): 1) things Christians find difficult to decide; 2) things the Bible does not address directly, but only by application of various principles; 3) things peripheral to the essentials of duty and grace; 4) things beyond a sound church's public ethical and doctrinal standards; 5) things immaterial in discerning a credible profession and applying church discipline. 4. Two Possible Responses (receive, reject). 5. Two Particular Temptations (the strong despising, the weak judging).
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Pastor D. Scott Meadows has been an elder at the Calvary Baptist Church (Reformed) of Exeter, New Hampshire, since 1991. Pastor Meadows holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in Christian theology. He left his engineering career for pastoral...