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truth of God. Actually, they are frustrating God's move in the building of the Body of Christ. No doctrinal concept should be our ground in re ceiving the believers. The only ground for us to receive the believers is God's receiving.
Receive Him Who Is Weak
In Romans 14:1 Paul says, "Now him who is weak in faith receive." Some believers are weak in faith because they have not yet received much of the transfusing and infusing of the element of God into them. Nevertheless, they do have a measure of faith and must be received.
Some believers, being weak in faith, dare not to eat everything or to regard every day the same. Yet they do have a measure of faith and are genuine believers in Christ. So, based upon this measure of faith of theirs and the fact that they are believers, we must receive them.
Not Passing Judgment
We need to read all of 14:1-5. "Now him who is weak in faith receive, not with a view to pass ing judgment on reasonings. One believes that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vege tables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat