Romans 14: Liberty and the Weaker Brother
In matters God has left to conscience, believers receive one another without quarreling, each is fully persuaded before the Lord he will answer to, and the strong lay down their liberty rather than destroy a brother for whom Christ died.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
Follow Romans 14 in its natural units and explain how it carries forward the love of Romans 13.
Identify the weak and the strong at Rome, and explain why Paul agrees with the strong yet spends the chapter correcting them.
Explain what Romans 14 covers and what it does not, including why Jewish customs brought into a church are a matter of pastoral oversight.
Answer fairly the debates over the days of 14:5, the brother who is destroyed in 14:15, and the faith of 14:23.