The Law of Love in the Church

The Christian church on earth is never a showcase of perfect people, but more like a hospital of recovering sinners, who are to assist each other in this journey of recovery. True believers in Jesus Christ come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and ways of life, with various life stories, and have different personalities, and different levels of faith. These differences can create tension and disharmony in the church, but the Lord has given very clear and extensive directions on dealing with these issues. This is the subject of this series of lectures, with a focus on the Scriptures from Romans 14 and 15.

  The previous lecture provided three principles of love in matters of Christian liberty. This lecture gives us two more principles to guide us, as outlined in Romans 14 and 15. The first is that believers in Jesus Christ have different levels of spiritual maturity. Some are strong in the faith, some are weak in the faith. The next principle is that the strong in the faith should bear the infirmities of the weak, and both should respect and honor the other. Rev. Vergunst provides several practical helps in this lecture for applying these principles in our lives.

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Rev. A.T. Vergunst is minister of the Gospel in the Reformed Congregation of Carterton, New Zealand.