Romans 14

Because language matters, careful teaching and preaching matter.

The issues are different, but the temptation is the same.

Maybe we need to be pushed in different ways than the Romans did.

My roommate in seminary was and still is a vegetarian. I grew up eating, and still occasionally enjoy, Spam. Our understanding of food could not have been any more different, and those first few months of negotiating our shared kitchen posed some challenges.

We both agreed, however, that we loved to eat.

Church folks will not always agree—nor should we.

We cannot choose who God will call into Christ’s body in baptism.