Where Do You Stand?

How can I put this except to just say it. 

I was recently asked where I stood when it comes to some of the issues that have come up over the last several years that have seen a schism divide brothers in Christ.

So here goes!

I stand where God stands as I see His will in His word.  You may not agree with my thoughts on my views of God's word, and that is your right as much as it mine to have a differing view.  I have different views on some of the things some of my brethren in the churches of Christ accept and some that I accept go against what some of my brethren stand against.  The beauty is that I will answer for what I believe and teach.  I may not feel the way some do and I may completely agree with others.

The point is Paul told us that we will be judged by God and our lives on this earth will be accepted if we are covered by the grace of God and our home will be in heaven with our Father and His Son! 

If you are a child of God and you strive to live for God who am I to hold you to something I believe.  I will not be your judge.  God will be. 

Paul used the illustration of the eating or not eating of meat.  Can we insert issues in place of meat?  I'm not sure about you, but I will answer my God knowing that what I teach is according to what I have learned from His word! 

Romans 14:13 - 23  NIV
¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. ¹⁴ I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, ¹⁸ because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
¹⁹ Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. ²¹ It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
²² So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ²³ But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. (emphasis mine!)