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We're going to take one for Sunday.

We've done two of them.

Number one and number two.

I'm skipping number three, saving it for Martin Luther

King Sunday, January 14th. We're going to take number four this morning. We're going to skip

number six. Do number five next week. Skip number six six do that on the sanctity of life

Sunday January 21 and in the intervening weeks we will do some more focused

Christmas things as well as prayer week so that's the plan for the next month or two.

This morning is point number four, but we can reverse last Sunday's approach.

Last Sunday I unpacked and then I went to the Bible and today I want to go to the Bible and then unpacked for a few minutes.

So let's take Romans 15. I'm going to read the first six verses.

I want you to have this in your mind as I read the text. The issue here was probably

meat offered to idols. Should we eat meat or should we only eat vegetables?

Or the issue might have been, do you keep Sunday holy in a special way or to keep all days

wholly in a special way or how does Sunday relate to other days or what about the other festival days of Judaism?

Should we as Christians keep those days and there were disagreements in the church at Rome about this?

And this text is written for handling those disagreements. about this

and this text is written for handling those disagreements now the issue here is worship this morning okay

hymns worship songs stand sit hands, not lift hands, guitar, piano, organ, choir, worship team. The church

in America today is being rent asunder. 97% of the churches are dealing with this issue of how do you worship the Lord on Sunday morning

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