To cook with onions or not to cook with onions… that is the question. Ask my wife and you’ll receive a resilient ‘yes!’ Ask me… and not so much. I hate onions and she loves them with a passion. Why on earth would two people with this great a difference between them ever agree to spend their days on this earth together? Is it possibly because we love one another? We’re willing to live with the differences in our taste for onions, even making exceptions so the other’s desires are fulfilled.

As those who profess to believe in Jesus Christ, how do we determine what will divide and separate, and what will cause no division? While it may not be a comfortable conversation, it is one that is addressed by the writers of the New Testament.

For example, in the fourteenth chapter of his letter to the Romans, Paul says…