I gave it this one, Let Conscience
Be Your Guide. That was to attract attention. The second title that I thought
about giving it is How To Fellowship With Those That Disagree With
You. Now when I talk about fellowshipping
with those who disagree with you, I'm not talking about disagreeing
on how the Lord saves sinners. There's only one God. I tried
this morning in my message to preach the sovereign, eternal,
immutable King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And we certainly cannot
fellowship with those who are not willing to bow the knee and
confess with the tongue our Lord Jesus Christ as the King of Kings
and Lord of Lords. There's one God. And there's
no fellowship outside of God, the true, the living God, the
righteous, just God. And then there's only one Savior
who said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to
the Father but by me. And the apostles said, O the
foundation can no man lay than that which is laid. So we're
not talking about fellowship outside of the gospel of Christ. the gospel of his sacrifice,
his vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice in the stead, in the
place, in the room of sinners. There can be no agreement with
anyone who denies the blood of Christ. And then there's only
one gospel, and Paul said, if a man preach any other gospel,
though it be an angel from heaven, let him be accursed. The gospel
of grace, the gospel of glory, the free gospel, the gospel of
the Old Testament prophets, the everlasting gospel. There's only
one gospel. We're not talking about agreeing
to disagree with those who hate the gospel and who pervert the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is one Holy Spirit who
quickens, who makes alive, and who reveals Christ. There's one
law of holiness, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou
shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not bear false witness,
thou shalt not covet, honor thy father and thy mother, thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. These are laws
that are laid down, and we're not talking about fellowship
outside the law. So I think that's perfectly clear
as I'm speaking tonight on how to fellowship with those who
disagree with you. I'm not talking about fellowshipping
with the anti-gods and the anti-Christ and the anti-laws, the antinomians,
and the people who are anti-gospel and anti-Holy Spirit. Not at
all. I'm not talking about that at
all. I'm talking about fellowshipping with these folks right here.
You say, but we all have fellowship. Well, we say we do. But we want to consider those
things that are left in question by an absence of Scripture. There
are some things that are not directly involved in a heart
relationship with God. There are some things that are
not dealt with in the Holy Scripture. Now, in a church you have differences. We're going to have to face that.
You've got age differences. There are people right here who
are little fellas, eight, nine, ten years old. And there are
men and women here who've lived seventy-five years. You've got
age differences. You can't expect people who are
eighteen years of age to think and to see and to act and to
talk like people seventy-five years of age. So my sense is
there's a generation gap. Of course there is. There always
has been. And always will be. There's a
gap between the boy 10 years old and the man 40 years old.
And there's a gap between the man 40 years old and the man
80 years old. There always has been. There's
an age gap. There's a big difference. Paul said that. He said, when
I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a child.
I acted like a child. When I became a man, I put away
childish things. That's very clear. There's background
differences. Some of you came from the city,
and some of you came from way back there in the hills and way
back in the woods, you know. And you're different in that
respect. And there's personality differences.
And there's male and female. And there's educated and uneducated
people here in this church. There are people who have means
and people who don't have means. And there'll always be differences
in that respect. And because of that, you have
differences in opinion and conviction. And a lot of these things are
not covered by the Word of God. It's an absence of Scripture.
And we're going to deal with those things now for a little
while. And in Romans chapter 14, get your Bibles, because
I'm going to go through this chapter verse by verse. Verse
by verse. Now watch it. Him that is weak
in the faith. receive ye, but not to doubtful
disputation." Now I have to admit, just pick that up and look at
it and act honestly, and sometimes in the King James Version it's
a little bit difficult to understand, but this is what Paul is saying.
As for the man who is a weak believer, a young believer, a
man who differs with you, a man who is easily offended, welcome
him into your fellowship, but not to mock his opinions, and
not to criticize his principles, and not to force him to your
persuasions. The man who disagrees with you,
and all of us feel like we're not that man who's weak in the
faith, we are the strong, we are the mature, we are the perfect.
That man who is weak in the faith, that man with whom you disagree,
that man who doesn't see things exactly as you see them. Now
remember my introduction. I'm not talking about the basic
principles of the gospel, and I'm not talking about the clear-cut
law of God, so don't even think along that line. But the man
who differs with you and the man who's easily offended, welcome
him into your fellowship. But don't bring him into your
fellowship to mock him and to find fault with him and criticize
him and force him to your persuasion. But welcome him into your fellowship
to really love him in Christ. Or look at verse 2. One believeth
that he may eat all things. Another who is weak, he eateth
only vegetables. Now you know the Old Testament
scriptures concerning the eating of pork and the eating of various
kinds of meat, ham, and so forth. You know the Old Testament scriptures
how that some things were clean and some things were unclean.
And how that even in the New Testament, some of the New Testament
Christians wouldn't eat the meat that had been sacrificed to idols
and put on the public marketplace because it offended them. Now
one man believes he can eat anything. He can eat meat, any kind of
meat. He can eat any kind of vegetable. He just doesn't bother
him at all. He doesn't see any. He doesn't
see any breaking of fellowship between him and God in any of
those things. This is what that's saying. One
man's faith and maturity in Christ permits him to eat anything,
while another man troubles by his traditions and trouble by
his upbringing and trouble by his conviction limits his eating
only to vegetables. He just won't touch that meat
that's been offered to idols. He just won't touch that particular
kind of meat that's been forbidden through the Old Testament scriptures
and the Jewish law. He just won't do it. He's got
convictions about it, and you don't have any convictions about
it at all. But he's weak in the faith, and he does. Now, Peter
had a problem with that. He was up there on the roof,
and God wanted him to go down and preach to Cornelius the Gentile,
and the Lord let a sheep down in a vision, and there on that
sheep was all kind of animals, and God said, Arise, kill and
eat. And Peter said, No, Lord. I've never eaten an unclean animal,
and I'm not going to do it now. And the Lord said, Peter, what
I call clean, you don't call unclean. You rise and kill and
eat. But now we're not the Lord, and we can't talk to a man that
way. This man said, I just don't believe in that, and I just can't
do it. Well, that's all right, brother.
That's perfectly all right. You just stand by your convictions.
Now read on. Let not him that eateth despise
him that eateth not. And let not him that eateth not
judge him that eateth. God hath received him. Now here's
what he's saying. The man who eats in faith, must
not look down on or ridicule the man who abstains. And the
man who abstains must not criticize or pass judgment on the man who
does partake, for he's God's servant, and what he does is
between him and God. Now read on. For who art thou,
verse 4, that judgeth another man's servant? Here's a master
over here who's got a servant. And he wants his servant to water
the lawn. Somebody says you're supposed
to water your lawn at six o'clock in the evening when the sun's
going down. He wants his to water the lawn at ten o'clock in the
morning. That's his business. And it's not any of my business to
criticize another man's servant. That's what he's saying here.
Who are you to judge another man's servant? To his own master
he standeth or falleth. That's his master's business.
He shall be holding up, but God is able to make him stand. Now
here's what he's saying. If a believer does not do everything
as I think he should, who am I to find fault with him? He's
God's servant, and he's answerable to his master, not to me. He stands or falls before God. I'm not his judge. But the Scripture
says he shall stand. We say he's going to fall, but
Scripture says he's going to stand because God is able to
hold him. God is able to sustain him. Now
look at the next line. One man esteemeth one day above
another. In other words, one man keeps
a Sabbath day. We're talking about the man who
esteems one day better than another. He thinks that one day in seven
is especially holy to God. by his tradition and by his background. There were some folks here from
Grand Rapids, Michigan recently at our Bible conference. Now
they esteem one day especially holy and especially to be set
apart and separated for the worship of God, not to eat in a restaurant
and not to buy any gasoline and not to run down the corner store
and the children not to play any basketball and not to toss
the ball out in the street. It's against their principles.
It's against their conviction. They esteem that day better than
another. Now read on. Another man says
every day is alike. Now he's not saying that we're
to worship God on not any day. What this man is saying is this.
One man keeps a Sabbath day. He thinks one day in seven is
especially holy. But this other man says we're
to love and serve God every day. He doesn't just read his Bible
on Sunday, he reads it every day. He doesn't just worship
God on Sunday, he worships and loves God every day. He doesn't
just go to church on Sunday, he goes to church on Wednesday,
or any other day that he can find somebody preaching the gospel.
He doesn't meditate and give himself to the worship of God
only on Sunday. He says every day is God's day,
every day is sacred, every day is holy. One day is no more important
than another day. Now read on. Let every man be
fully persuaded in his own mind. This is a matter for individual
consideration. That's what Paul's saying right
here. If you have a man in this congregation and he's offended
by your activity on Sunday, he esteems one day better than another.
Another man says, every day is alike, every day is holy. Well,
let's read on. Verse 6, Don't fall out over
it, for he that regardeth the day, he who observes the day,
observes it in honor unto the Lord. I'm sure they're sincere.
I'm sure that man who would not take a Sunday paper is sincere.
I'm sure the man who would never turn his television on on the
Lord's Day, he is sincere. He is honoring the Lord. He feels
convicted about it. He feels it's something that's
been taught and put in his heart, and he does it out of honor to
his God. He's not doing it trying to act
pious. He's doing it because he feels
that way, he's convicted that way. We don't. And he that regards
not the day to the Lord, he doth not regard the day. In other words, he who observes
the day does it in honor to the Lord, and he who doesn't observe
the day, who observes, says that every day is God's day. He may
have a maturity there that we could envy. And he that eateth,
eateth to the Lord, for he giveth thanks, and he that eateth not
to the Lord, he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. He who observes
the day does it in honor to the Lord, and he that eats all meat
does it in honor to Christ and gives thanks to God that he can
enjoy these pleasures. He gives thanks to God that God
has given him these things to enjoy. And while he who abstains, he
does it because of his relationship to God. The man who honors the
day does it because he belongs to God, and the man who doesn't,
he says he doesn't because God has changed these things. And
his relationship is not with a law or with a day or with a
statute or with an ordinance, but a living Lord person. Well,
now you have a difference there. And that's what Paul's talking
about, how to fellowship with those that disagree with you.
Now I want to go on. We're not through by any means.
Verse 7, For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself. Now immediately when we look
at that, we think about, that is, other people are involved
in what we do. Well, that's true. And our lives
touch other people, and any action that I commit or any word that
I say will affect someone. Well, that's true, but that's
not what he's talking about here. Read on. Whether we live, we
live unto the Lord. Or whether we die, we die unto
the Lord. Whether we live or die, we're
not our own, we're the Lord's. Whether we live or die, we belong
to the Lord. You're not your own. He bought
you with a price. You belong to Him. I make up
my mind about life and its decisions with Christ in mind. In other words, I don't just
make up my mind about life and its decisions with other people
in mind because I'd make myself the most miserable fellow on
earth. But I make up my mind about life and its decisions
according to my relationship with God Almighty. That's what
he's saying here. As far as this observing a day
above another day or all days alike, I've got to reach a decision
based upon not Not my conduct where other people are concerned,
but where Christ is concerned, first of all. Now, we'll get
to that other later. But my conduct and my habits
and my way of life is determined not by a system of laws handed
down by individuals, the Puritans or anybody else, but by my relationship
to Christ. Whether I live or die, I belong
to Him. I'm His. My relationship in God
is in Christ, and He's my Lord, not anybody else. He's my judge,
not anybody else. He's the one who gives me my
orders, not anybody else. For to this end, verse 9, look
at it, for to this end Christ both died and rose and revived,
that He might be the Lord, not the church. The church doesn't
tell me what to do. Have you ever noticed the And
I'm sure the new people here have, there's a certain leniency. As far as this pulpit is concerned
about telling people what, whether they're to take a Sunday paper,
or whether they're to have a TV, or whether they're to go to a
movie, or whether they're to do these things, there's a certain
leniency here, because I'm not the Lord. I'm not the Lord. He's the Lord.
For that purpose, He died on the cross and was buried and
rose again, that He might be Lord, both of the dead, those
who've gone to be with God, and the living. He's the Master,
not me. He's the Lord. I belong to Christ,
not to the church. I belong not to a table of stone. I belong not to a preacher. I
belong not to a denomination. I belong to the Lord. I'm His. So why do you judge your brother? Why do you sit around a circle
and say, did you see her? Did you see what she had on?
Did you see him? That's so disgusting. I wonder
how they can claim to be Christians and do that. Why do you judge
your brother? Why do you set it not your brother?
Why do you take it upon yourselves to criticize and judge other
people and look down upon them? Ours is not the standard by which
men shall be judged. Look at the next line. We shall
all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. He's the judge. He's the Lord. That's His business. I'm His servant. You're His servant. You make up your mind about your
conduct. according to your relationship
with Him. And it's not my business because
I'm older than you, you're younger than I am, or I'm a male and
you're a female, or I'm uneducated and you're educated, or I'm poor
and you're wealthy to sit in judgment upon your likes and
dislikes. Personality dictates those things
so often. Opportunity dictates those things,
so I'm not the judge. And we're not, look at verse
11, it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall
bow to me. I'm not going to be on the judgment
seat. I'm going to be before the judgment
seat. And you're not going to be on
the judgment seat, you're going to be before the judgment seat.
Christ is on the judgment seat. He's the master, He's the Lord.
I'm His servant, you're His servant. He bought us, we're not our own.
He is the one who says how we're to live, and how we're to talk,
and how we're to conduct ourselves, what we can do, whether we can
eat meat or eat vegetables, whether we keep a day or not a day. He's
the master. And we're the servants. Let us
not therefore, verse 13, judge one another any more, but judge
this rather. Now watch this. Now we're getting
into the heart of this thing. Judge this rather, that no man
put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way."
Now here's what Paul's saying. Let's quit criticizing, judging,
finding fault with one another, but spend that time working on
our own attitudes and working on our own ways that we might
encourage others in the gospel rather than offending others. Let's spend this time sitting
in judgment, not on them, but on ourselves, and seeking ways
that we can avoid offending others, and seeking ways that we can
be a blessing to them, rather than an offense to them. Now
watch this next, I've got to go on, watch it. Verse 14, I
know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ that nothing,
there is nothing unclean of itself. Now here's what he's saying,
I know and am convinced as one in Christ that there is nothing
material that is defiled, unholy, and essentially unclean in itself. It can't be. Nothing that God
has created can be unclean in itself. Now there can be abuse
of it, intemperate use of it, It can be twisted, it can be
perverted, but in itself, it's what I do with it that makes
it unclean. Nothing is unclean in itself,
he said, ceremonial or otherwise. But, to him that esteemeth anything
to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Now here's what he's saying there.
Nevertheless, to a man who is young in faith, perhaps immature
in Christ, Because of traditional background and so forth, if he
thinks a thing is wrong, to him it is wrong. And you're not going
to change that. He thinks it's wrong, he's convinced
it's wrong, and with all of your arguments and flaunting it in
front of him, you're not going to change that. To him it's still
wrong. If he thinks it's wrong, to him it is wrong. That's the
reason it's wrong to him, is because he's convinced it is.
Now Paul said, I am persuaded. that nothing in itself is unclean.
But this other man who is weak in the faith is not so persuaded. He's persuaded that it is wrong.
So as long as he thinks that, and as long as he's convinced
of that, then it is wrong. And you're not going to change
that. So therefore, verse 15, If thy brother be grieved with
thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Now listen to this.
If you go ahead Here you are, and you're convinced that this
particular thing is not wrong. He regards the day, you regard
it not. He does not eat meat, you do. And you're persuaded, you're
convinced. Paul said he was, I'm persuaded that nothing in
itself is unclean, I'm convinced of it. And this man, he persuaded
that it is, that's the way he's thinking. And you go on and do
it anyway in His presence, knowing that it offends Him, knowing
that it'll cause Him to stumble. Paul says, you're not walking
in love. You're not walking in love. You're not demonstrating
the love of Christ. That's not the thing to do. It's
not the thing to do to flaunt your liberty. You may be right. You are right, because he keeps
calling this man weak in the faith. Paul wasn't weak in the
faith. Paul was a liberated, inspired
apostle. And he says, I'm persuaded. Nothing
ceremonially unclean, essentially unclean in itself. To this man
it is. But if I take my liberty and force it down his throat,
in his presence, I'm not acting in love. Look at chapter 15,
verse 1. We then that are strong, and
there's a responsibility put upon the strong, we ought to
bear the infirmities of the weak, not to please ourselves. Let
every one of us please his neighbor for his neighbor's good to edification,
for even Christ pleased not himself. Even Christ pleased not himself.
All right, read the next line. Paul said, I know and am persuaded
nothing's essentially unclean. Then if thy brother be grieved
with thy meat, you're not walking in love. Destroy not him with
meat for whom Christ died. Now, you're not going to send
him to hell with your meat, but what you'll do is you'll offend
him to the point that he'll leave the fellowship. You'll offend him to the point
that he'll leave the church. He'll leave the hearing of the
gospel. You keep antagonizing him, and you keep forcing your
will upon him, and you'll destroy him. He's weak, and you're strong. And you're right, and he's wrong.
But forcing your will upon him is not demonstrating the love
of Christ, who pleased not himself. All right, verse 16 now. Let
not then your good be evil spoken of. That is, do not give these
weak men and men an occasion to stumble and speak evil of
you when you can just as easily forego that particular thing. After all, verse 17, the kingdom
of God is not a matter of just getting the food and drink that
one likes. There's more to the kingdom of
God than meat and drink. The kingdom of God is righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. The kingdom of God is
heart peace, righteousness in Christ and joy in the Holy Spirit.
It's a whole lot more than proving to this man that I can eat meat.
The kingdom of God is more. It's not a matter of just getting
what I want to eat or drink or satisfying my fleshly desires. It's a whole lot more than that.
It's righteousness in Christ, it's heart peace, it's joy in
the Holy Ghost, it's blessed unity when brethren dwell together
in harmony and fellowship. It's setting an example. It's
trying to help and not to hinder. It's trying to lead and not to
offend. It's trying to be a blessing
for the glory of God. Verse 18, For he that in these
things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men. He who serves Christ in this
attitude, that he's not going to please himself, though he
knows he's right, but he's going to try to help that individual
who is weak in the faith. Now turn to 1 Corinthians 10.
You say, where'd you get that let conscience be your God stuff?
All right, turn to 1 Corinthians 10 a moment. Now notice I didn't say, let
your conscience be your God. I said, let conscience. I deliberately
left that word, your, out. I hear people say, let your conscience
be your God, as the Bible says, but that's not what it says.
In 1 Corinthians 10, 28, if any man say unto you, 1 Corinthians
10, 28, this is offered in sacrifice to idols. Eat not for his sake
that pointed it out, and for conscience' sake. Father, earth
is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. Conscience, I say, not
thine own, but of the other. Why is my liberty judged of another
man's conscience? If I by grace be a partaker,
why am I evil-spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether
therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the
glory of God, and give none offence, neither to the Jew nor to the
Gentile, nor to the church of God. even as I please all men
and all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of
many, that they might be saved." You've got a man in your company
that you believe he's sincere in this matter of being offended,
and they're sincere in his convictions and principles. Don't force your
will upon him. We're going to see something
else in just a moment. But try to do those things which will
be edifying to him instead. So in verse 19, Let us therefore
follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith
one may edify another. Let us definitely aim for and
eagerly pursue that which makes harmony in the church. and do
those things which do not tear down, but those things which
edify and bring together the people of God. It is good, verse 21, verse 20,
for meat destroy not the work of God. It's not worth food or
personal pleasure to tear down the work of God. Ceremonially,
these things are good and clean and pure, but it's just not worth
it. All things indeed are pure,"
verse 20, but it's evil for the man who eateth with offense.
It's wrong to hurt the conscience of those people to whom these
things are wrong. So then, verse 21, the right
thing to do is a void that which causes a
brother to stumble. That's what he says here. It's
good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby
thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak. If that's
going to cause him to stumble, then just leave it off. Verse
22, Do you have faith? Have it to thyself before God. Your personal convictions on
such matters exercise as in God's presence. Your personal convictions
on such matters exercise as in God's presence, keeping them
to yourself. That's what he says here. Do
you have faith? Have it before God. And happy
is the man that condemneth not himself in that thing which he
alloweth." What's he saying? He is saying that blessed and
to be envied is the man who has maturity in Christ and faith
in Christ and liberty in Christ, a liberty that is not bound by
materialism and ceremonialism and ritualism. but whose heart
is wrapped up in a living, vital, loving, personal relationship
with a king whom he seeks to please. Walking alongside him in this
pilgrimage, this journey through life, are some people who are
weak. They're easily offended. All right, I'll be to you what
you want me to be to you. It's not going to hurt me. and
I'll be to you what you want me to be to you. I have different
convictions, I have different principles, I have different
faith, I'll have it to myself privately before God, but I walk
in step with you." Not contrary to the law now. Please understand
my introduction, keep that in mind. I'm talking about these
doubtful things, these things on which the Scriptures are absent. Happy is that man that condemneth
not himself, in whose heart he is not condemned. But he walks
with a living Lord that has a liberty, and he has a liberty not bound
by materialism, but he not only has a liberty, he has a responsibility,
right? And it's not only the minister
who has that responsibility, but it's every member of God's,
of Christ's body and of Christ's church. And we need to exercise
that liberty in the presence of our Lord and have it to ourselves
and be careful that we give none offense that we cause not a brother
to stumble or to be taken out from under the gospel who needs
it so badly. But look at verse 23, and here's
the word to those weak. He that doubteth, he destroyeth
if he eats. He's saying this, the man who
has doubts and an uneasy concerning these matters of law and ceremony. If he says, well, Joe did it,
I'll do it. Uh-uh, you can't operate on those
principles. It has to be, it's all right
with the Lord, I'll do it. If you do it on the principle,
Joe did it, so I'll do it, hang God. Now he's destroyed, he's
damned if he is. You see what he's saying there?
Hold on to your convictions until God turns you loose. Hold on
to your persuasions and your principles till God releases
you. Hold on to these things that
you do out of honor to God until you can see that Christ can take
their place. Because he eateth not of faith,
and whatsoever is not of faith is sin. In other words, he's
saying here, whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. That is, whatever is done without
a conviction that it's all right before God, it's a sin. It doesn't matter what it is.
If there's a disturbance in my heart, if there's trouble in
my heart concerning a thing, if I'm doubtful about this thing,
better leave it alone. Better leave it alone. Because
if you cannot eat in faith, if you cannot drink in faith, if
you cannot walk in faith, you eat and drink and walk in sin,
because you're going against the convictions of your heart. The main message here is to those
who've been around a while, to those who've grown in the grace
and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. to those who've been
blessed with a sweet fellowship with the Redeemer, and your faith
and confidence is not wrapped up in a materialistic ceremonialism,
but you walk with a living King, and you see not evil in material
things. Nothing essentially is unclean
or of itself unclean. It can be twisted, it can be
turned, it can be perverted and made evil, but nothing in itself.
And yet walking beside you are little children. Walking beside
you are those who are weak in the faith. Now, are we just going
to walk with our heads held up high to ignore the fact that
these people may be offended? No, we must not. Destroy not
one for whom Christ died with your liberty. It's not worth
it. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink. It is righteousness
in Christ. It is heart peace. It is joy
in the Holy Ghost. So I may be forced to act contrary
to my personal convictions and principles for the sake of somebody
else, but it's worth it. It's worth it. It's worth it. And the man who has doubts and
sincere doubts about certain things, I say that Paul is saying,
hold to your convictions, stand by your principles until God
changes them. until you grow so in the grace and knowledge
of Christ that that can be replaced with something that's more precious
and more wonderful. But we belong to the Lord. Whether
we live or die, we belong to Him. And He's the judge. We're
out there the servants. And the servants are not going
to be picking at one another. You didn't do this. Peter and
John did that. Peter said, Well, if I'm going
to be crucified, what's this fellow going to do? And Christ
said, What he does is none of your business. He's my servant. If I will that he tarry, shall
I come back here. If I will that he live, shall
I come back to the earth. That's none of your business.
You do what I told you to do. That's your business. And the
service must not be criticizing and judging and bickering because
they're answerable to the Master. Build unity and peace for the
glory of Christ.