Ridgelines Series, Core Value #3: "We Are Gracious"

Main Idea: Where you’re weak, don’t grumble. Where you’re strong, don’t cause to stumble.

1 Timothy 4:4 (ESV) – “For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is to be received with thanksgiving…”

Opinions (convictions): decisions we make in areas of life in which the Scriptures are silent, neutral, or non-binding.

Galatians 2:11-14 (ESV): 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

How do we embody GRACE – in our lives, and in our life together? How do we pursue UNITY in the absence of UNIFORMITY? 

1. Remember the gospel

2. Serve and worship Christ through your Spirit-led convictions

3. Pursue peace

4. Build-up the body