What if our biggest church fights aren’t about truth, but about taste? We open Romans 14–15 and face the everyday places where convictions collide—food choices, holiday practices, styles, even the trivial stuff that somehow derails our love. Paul’s counsel to the Roman church becomes a roadmap for us: receive the weak without quarrels, refuse to despise or judge, and remember that the person across from you has already been received by God.

We unpack how “put on the Lord Jesus Christ” reframes liberty, conscience, and community. One believer eats, another abstains; one marks a day, another treats every day alike—each unto the Lord, each giving thanks. The point is not uniformity but maturity: deny yourself when your freedom might wound a brother’s conscience, and pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding. Along the way we tackle modern mirrors of ancient debates—technology that can serve or enslave, health choices that differ by person, and the magnetism of petty preferences that scatter fellowship. The warning lands with weight: do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

If the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, then our priorities must shift. We talk about living and dying to the Lord, the sobering hope of the judgment seat of Christ, and the practical habits that foster unity without diluting conviction. Expect clear teaching, honest stories, and concrete takeaways on how to protect a brother’s conscience, choose love over leverage, and let the gospel—not our preferences—set the tone.

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