When the Conflict Is Not about the Conflict and What It Is Really About

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John David Walt opens with the prayer of consecration and reads Romans 14:5–9, "When the Conflict Is Not About the Conflict." He says Paul does not ask either side in the Sabbath dispute to compromise their convictions. Paul tells each person to be fully convinced and to stand before the Lord, and that shifts the argument into a question of personal devotion to Jesus. Because "we belong to the Lord" in life and in death, and Christ died to be Lord of both, the cross becomes the level ground where people can find each other again. JD's prayer says our deepest conflicts come from brokenness, and he asks to be healed so we can be "beacons and bearers of belovedness." He explains that Romans 1–11 is coming to the cross and Romans 12 onward is living through it.

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