Coherent belief and cultivating relationships. [Playing "nice" with others.](Romans 14:22-23)
Channel: Learnding with Sarah-Michael
Date: 2021-05-17

Let's dig in!
(Please don't let the title make you stumble. I was asking GOD what to name it and brackets is more "me speak") 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2012%3A4&version=MSG

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So what if evangelizing in a world that knows "christianity" looks more like living like CHRIST and letting HIM shape us rather than arguing over who's Jesus is better. 


If the three "don'ts" of this verse are: imposing our relationship with GOD on others, imposing our opinions on others, and trying to please others, would the "do's" Look more like: Cultivating our own relationship, as we walk with together with others, hearing others and "seeing" them and letting GOD shape how we see life rather than telling HIM and others how they should see it?


What questions do you have? Let's dig into them, cause the answers HE gives us can help us rise but lifting each other.


**22-23 Cultivate your own relationship with God, but don’t impose it on others. You’re fortunate if your behavior and your belief are coherent. But if you’re not sure, if you notice that you are acting in ways inconsistent with what you believe—some days trying to impose your opinions on others, other days just trying to please them—then you know that you’re out of line. If the way you live isn’t consistent with what you believe, then it’s wrong.


(10-18 from Rom 14 Below)
10-12 So where does that leave you when you criticize a brother? And where does that leave you when you condescend to a sister? I’d say it leaves you looking pretty silly—or worse. Eventually, we’re all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God. Your critical and condescending ways aren’t going to improve your position there one bit. Read it for yourself in Scripture:

“As I live and breathe,” God says,
    “every knee will bow before me;
Every tongue will tell the honest truth
    that I and only I am God.”

So mind your own business. You’ve got your hands full just taking care of your own life before God.

13-14 Forget about deciding what’s right for each other. Here’s what you need to be concerned about: that you don’t get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I’m convinced—Jesus convinced me!—that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it.

15-16 If you confuse others by making a big issue over what they eat or don’t eat, you’re no longer a companion with them in love, are you? These, remember, are persons for whom Christ died. Would you risk sending them to hell over an item in their diet? Don’t you dare let a piece of God-blessed food become an occasion of soul-poisoning!

17-18 God’s kingdom isn’t a matter of what you put in your stomach, for goodness’ sake. It’s what God does with your life as he sets it right, puts it together, and completes it with joy. Your task is to single-mindedly serve Christ. Do that and you’ll kill two birds with one stone: pleasing the God above you and proving your worth to the people around you.