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

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If you got a Bible, we're in a book of the New Testament called Romans.

We're taking about a year going through it.

We find ourselves in Romans chapter 14.

And for those who are joining us online maybe from outside

of the United States of America let's just tell them what weekend is it here in

our blessed country as 4th of July Independence Day. Independence Day. So yes if you're

watching online it's a bad day if you're British but it's a good day for us so

this is our Independence Day and this is the time when we as Americans honor

freedom in independence and liberty by grilling and blowing things up and

and that's just how we do it.

And so what is really interesting is we're in the book of Romans.

The text this week is about Christian liberty

and freedom that God gives his children.

It perfectly fits because God's word is perfect

and it always perfectly fits.

And so the question that Paul is addressing

in Romans 14 is, when the understanding of Christianity, what we call the gospel of Jesus

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