Hello this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

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e-books and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

Well how do you if you've got a Bible, go to the Book of Romans. We're in Chapter 14.

We're taking about a year going right through this amazing and epic book of the Bible and just let you know

where we're going to finish Romans in July then we're going to do a short series

in August on spiritual gifts September we're going to jump into a book of the

Bible called James January we're going to jump into a book of the Bible called James, January we're going to go

into a book of the Bible, Genesis, and if Jesus doesn't return, we'll do something after that.

So that's kind of where we're going and what we're done.

And where we find ourselves in Romans 14 is in the second half of the book.

So the book of Romans breaks down into two parts.

Chapters 1 through 11 are primarily about our relationship with God, is our father. and then chapters 12 through 16 are how he

brings us into the church family so chapters 1 through 11 how do we have a

relationship with God 12 through 16 how do we have a relationship with God? 12 through 16, how do we have a relationship with each other?

And this is really important.

How do we have a loving, healthy, unified church

that is also lovingly healthy and unified with other churches

because if anybody's on team Jesus,

we're all on the same team.

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