• Thought For The Day

    Accepting One Another

    One of the more difficult tasks for Believers is this admonition from Paul (and others) found in Romans 14:1. “Accept (receive; welcome) one another. . . ,” and then the passage goes on to talk about strong and weak Believers, or to put it differently, folks who don’t think or act just exactly like we do. Paul warns us not to get overwrought, or distressed, or even concerned, really, and certainly never condemnatory, about things that don’t make a difference to start with. The issues have changed since the first century. We’re not too concerned these days about “meat sacrificed to idols,” but we do get bent out of shape because,…