Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. Father, as we begin this study, I ask that the Ministry of the Holy Spirit, who is our primary

teacher would be at work in our minds and in our hearts as you would lead us into the truth. I pray that you would use me

as a secondary teacher to try to open up the meaning of the text and make application.

So Father, bless these men who are present

and bless everyone who is watching by media.

We pray this in Christ's name, Amen.

All right, here we go.

Romans chapter 14, Romans chapter 14.

And today we're going to be looking at verses one through four and the title of this study is

weak believer comma strong believer.

Weak believer strong believer.

So as always, I want to begin by reading the passage first and to introduce it to us and

then we'll work our way through it.

The Apostle Paul writes, now accept the one who is weak in faith,

but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.

One person has faith that he may eat all things,

but he who is weak eats vegetables only. The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the

one who does not eat and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who

...