Welcoming Weaker Brothers & Sisters (TMF:1846)

Monday, May 09, 2022
Peace to Live By: Welcoming Weaker Brothers & Sisters (TMF:1846) - Daniel Litton
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       We are to welcome weaker believers but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions, as Paul stated. That means we aren’t to accept weaker brothers and sisters into our friendship with the purpose of trying to deliberately convert them to how we see things—to our level of freedom in Christ. In reality, only God can make people freer. If we are trying to push our view on someone, then we are truly selfish indeed. We are only thinking about ourselves, and not what the other person needs at the time. This doesn’t mean that when opportunity arises, we don’t discuss matters of Christian liberty. We still discuss them, and we still have hope that weaker Christians will become stronger. And even if the weaker folks don’t accept our views—even if they don’t rise to a new level of Christian liberty—that doesn’t either mean we reject those people and say, “Ah, they’re just too weak and rule oriented. We don’t want to be around them.” The first example is provided to us here, when it says, “One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.”