hebai:“一個人說信神，就不能漠視路邊的一個乞丐；
一個人說信神，就不能對父母出言不遜；
一個人說信神，就不能放過任何可以傳福音的機會；
一個人說信神，就不能在心中存有怨恨；
一個人說信神，就不能有嫉妒心；”
http://www.pbc.org/dp/stedman/adventure/0247.html
Then they wrote to him about three things that were troubling them; largely in the church at Corinth. First, they were worried about offending God, and about offending the conscience of the weaker brother, in the matter of eating meat that was offered to idols. Although we are no longer troubled by the problem of whether we ought to eat meat offered to idols or not, nevertheless in this section, we are confronting in principle this whole thorny issue of Christian taboos -- smoking, drinking, dancing, everything that has ever been brought up as a problem within the church that is not specifically identified as an evil in the ????ures. What do you do about it?
It is most interesting that Paul was an apostle, with all the authority of an apostle, but he absolutely refused to make up any rules along this line.
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This is because the weak, immature Christian always wants somebody to put him under law, but if you put a Christian under law, then he is no longer under grace!
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And Paul knows that Christians must learn to deal with what he calls "the law of liberty." The fact is that all things are right; nothing is wrong in itself: the devil never made any of the capabilities and capacities that are in the human being -- God made them all. And no urge or desire, or tendency is wrong in itself -- we are at liberty in these things.
But with this law, he links two other laws. One he calls the "law of love;" that is the law that says, "I may be free to do it, but if I am really putting a stumbling block in somebody else's path, I won't do it" -- that is the law of love. The limitation is imposed not by my conscience, but by another's conscience. The other is the "law of expediency;" that is, everything is legal, is lawful, but not everything is helpful. There are a lot of things I could do, and many directions I could go, as a Christian, but if I spend all my time doing all the things I am free to do, I no longer have any time to do the things which I am called to do, and therefore, it is not always helpful. These things can be a waste of time and drag us back, even though they are not wrong in themselves. That is what Hebrews calls the "weights;" as the writer says, "... lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely..." (Hebrews12:1b RSV).
