Madre
05-13-2007, 06:07 PM
This morning the message was from 1 Cor. 8. One of the pastors spoke about how we are to look at those situations that are not Biblically cut and dried. He called it "Navigating the Gray".
1-Does the Bible speak to it? He quoted one of his professors: Where the Bible stops, I stop.
2-Is it illegal?
3-What are my preferences? Is a particular situation unbiblical or is it something that just "bugs" you?
4-Does it tempt me to sin?
Sometimes people from a narrow background, full of rules and restrictions which has nothing to do with the gospel itself and everything to do with a particular social subculture, try to insist that all other good Christians should join them in their tight little world. ~ N.T. Wright
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons—marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who use them, he has taken the wrong turning. ~ C.S. Lewis
1-Does the Bible speak to it? He quoted one of his professors: Where the Bible stops, I stop.
2-Is it illegal?
3-What are my preferences? Is a particular situation unbiblical or is it something that just "bugs" you?
4-Does it tempt me to sin?
Sometimes people from a narrow background, full of rules and restrictions which has nothing to do with the gospel itself and everything to do with a particular social subculture, try to insist that all other good Christians should join them in their tight little world. ~ N.T. Wright
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons—marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who use them, he has taken the wrong turning. ~ C.S. Lewis