On Location from Rome Week 14

What if the bride walking down the aisle on her wedding day looked less like a radiant vision and more like a battered fighter who just stumbled out of the ring? That’s the shocking image Paul paints in Romans 14—because when we gossip, criticize, and condemn each other, we’re not just throwing shade, we’re throwing punches at the Bride of Christ. Instead of preparing her to shine in splendor, we leave her limping, bruised, and bloodied. But Paul calls us higher: unity over uniformity, love over legalism, convictions without condemnation. Because Jesus didn’t die so we could win arguments—He died so we could win the lost. This week, we’ll discover how to stop beating up the Bride and start building her up, so the church can walk down the aisle radiant, ready, and redeemed.