Section 8
However, they declined to do so. Then I asked those who advocated these practices to care for the feeling of the others. They also refused, in sisting that there was nothing wrong with what they were doing. Eventually, due to the inability on both sides to accept believers with different doctrines and practices, these groups were not able to meet together in oneness for the practice of the church life.
A GENERAL ATTITUDE
The Lord can testify on our behalf that in our practice of the church life we have been general, receiving all different kinds of believers. For in stance, we do not stop the saints from speaking in tongues, but neither do we insist on tongues- speaking. Nevertheless, we have been accused of narrowness. Actually it is those in the denomi nations who are narrow, for they do not receive all different kinds of Christians. Throughout the years we have been in Los Angeles, we have never rejected any genuine believer in Christ. Fur thermore, we have not adjusted others. On the contrary, we have been learning simply to min ister life to all who come.
In Romans 14 Paul's attitude was very gen eral. Doctrinally speaking, Paul knew that the