Fight Between Father and Son
Theme of the Week: Slaying Sin
Friday, June 1, 2007
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Key Bible Verse: So accept each other just as Christ has accepted you; then God will be glorified Romans 15:7. Bonus Reading: Romans 14:1-15:7
There is room in Christ's church for you whether you wear wingtips or sandals, whether you walk to church or ride in a Rolls, whether you use my translation or not.
A play portrayed an intense conflict between a father and a son. The point came when the father and son agreed to part. In the middle of the night the son had trouble sleeping, so he went down to fix himself a sandwich, and there was his father, who couldn't sleep either.
After they fixed their sandwiches they began to reminisce about the past—about the years in Little League, about their great hunting expeditions, about their swimming together, about their fishing trips.
As some needed healing was taking place, the son said, "Dad, do you remember the time we were out on the lake in that green boat?" His father said, "The boat was blue, Son." The son said, "No, it was green." The father said, "You are mistaken—it was blue." "Green." "Blue." "Green." "Blue." And his son departed, never to return.
Some things just don't matter. May we allow God to give us the wisdom to see what is essential and what is not.
—Kent Hughes in Romans: Righteousness from Heaven
My Response: I'll ask God to reveal areas of inflexibility in my life, and commit to overlooking the inessential.
Thought to Apply: In essentials unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.—PETER MEIDERLIN (German theologian)
Adapted from Romans: Righteousness from Heaven (Crossway, 1991) by permission.
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Forgive me, Lord, for minimizing the gift of my reconciliation to You through Christ by failing to confront my sinfulness.
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