Today's Devotional "Ouch!" Moment

In open defiance of the possible etiquette rule against posting more than one blog entry in a day, here goes my second for today.

In his monthly Tabletalk column for January, the wonderful Gene Edward Veith observes:

...I have never, ever, in any congregation or denomination, seen anyone so much as try to implement what the apostle Paul says to do in the case of disputes within the church, wherein the strong give in for the sake of the weak (Rom. 14-15). You would think that the parties in a church dispute, each of whom assumes that he is the stronger one, would stumble over each other trying to give in to the other person, clearly one of the weaker brethren. And yet we do not, which is yet more evidence of our depravity.

Man, that hurt. I've had the germ of the same insight when reading this passage in Romans, and I recall even preaching this basic idea to my erstwhile congregation. But live it? I might have to get back to you on that one.