A Final Word On "Disputable Matters"

There are alot of these "disputable matters" that we deal with in our Christian relationships and in the church. I don't believe that we have dealt with these matters in our churches in the way that Paul guides us in his letter to the Romans. We have, in most cases, wanted to make everything black and white in what we believed and what we practiced. So, we had an opinion about everything and backed it up with a vague and stretched sort of proof-texting and called it truth. Then we based our fellowship on whether others believed what we believed in regard to what we claimed to be truth. Now we seem to spend our time trying to decide whose right and whose wrong, whose in and whose out, and we have lost our whole focus on real truth--Jesus Christ the Son of God who gave his life so that we might live.
Paul gives this final message about those "disputable matters" that we fight over so much.
Rom. 14:22-5:2 (NIV): So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good to build him up."
This tells me that we, on many matters of opinion, will have different ideas, thoughts, and practice. And when we handle this diversity of thought we do it in the way that Paul has given in the above passage. The diversity is okay as long as we come to our understanding based on faith.
I find it interesting that even though we might have diverse thoughts in the these matters of opinion that Paul still encourages us to have unity. Rom. 15:5(NIV): May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ.
Unity in our diversity.