When our leadership team met to discuss the various factors involved with reopening church after three months of the coronavirus pandemic, I shared the following devotion with them. The questions and reflections are from Romans 14, and I have posted the verse references after each question/reflection so you can look them up yourself. This is a passage that deals with what may be called “doubtful matters” or “disputed matters.” These types of matters would be those which are not explicitly mentioned in scripture; therefore, Romans 14 was written to help guide Christians on making decisions about these “greyish” circumstances.

The questions and reflections below can apply to any disputed matter, including whether to and how to reopen church or not. I will simply list the questions and reflections and not the full scripture passage since that would take up more space than is necessary. I would encourage you to go through Romans 14 on your own and see how you might be helped by scripture on the many “disputed matters” we run into in our lives.