How To Get Along With One Another

We often struggle with one another when we can't agree on Hot Button topics. Such issues as politics, schools, forms of recreation, celebration of certain holiday, church attendance, fellowship, clapping hands, raising hands, and even instrumental music. The result is a chuch that splinters and grows weak.
Romans 14 is a good chapter to look and learn when it comes to how we are to treat one another when these Hot Button topics hit us. The following are eight points from the first 19 verses that Paul presents us on how to get along with one another when these issues arise:

1. Accept him or her whose faith is weak by welcoming them. V.1
2. Don't quarrel over "opinions" or "disputable matters." V. 1
3. Don't pass judgment toward on another over these matters of opinion. V.3
4. Let God take care of the judgment of others in regard to these issues and practices. V.4
5. Where ever you are on these issues or opinions, be sure your practice or abstinence of them is to honor the Lord. Vs. 5-9
6. Remember, when you consider you stance on these "disputable matters" you will give an account to God. Vs. 10-12
7. When you exercise your right in these matters of opinion, be driven by love for one another rather than by your own selfish desire. V. 15
8. Pursue only those things, in Christ, that will lead to peace and mutual upbuilding. V.19

God help us to see and do things His way!