Should Christians ____________________?
I asked a few friends to fill in the blank in this question with “gray area” issues they have encountered in their life.
Here are some examples of what you came up with:
Should christians drink in public?
Should Christians drink at all?
Should Christians listen to secular music?
Should Christians watch Rated R Movies?
Should Christians practice yoga?
Should Christians get Tattoos?
These gray area debates have caused division in the church from the beginning.
In Chapters 8-10 of 1st Corinthians, Paul answers one of these gray area questions for the Church in Corinth. “Should Christians eat food sacrificed to Idols?”
At face value, this topic doesn’t seem really relevant to us. But, the principles given to answer this question can be applied to most of the gray area questions we face for culture today!
Paul doesn’t answer this cultural question with a simple “yes” or “no” but filters it through the calling Jesus gave to us to love and glorify God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love others as we love ourself.
Can you (insert gray area topic of concern) and glorify God with it?
Are you setting an example of love through participating in that thing?
The way you answer those two questions determines your course of action.
This Episode Begins a three-week Series on Setting an Example of love to others through our behavior.