What kinds of issues besides eating meat offered to idols count as doubtful practices for believers?
Besides meat offered to idols, doubtful practices include matters of diet and alcoholic beverages, along with many other things not necessarily delineated in Scripture. Such issues become the individual believer’s option before God, though liberty must be limited if exercising it would cause a weaker believer to stumble.
Les explains that this principle is not limited to eating meat offered to idols. It can apply to diet, alcoholic beverages, and many things not necessarily delineated in Scripture. In those areas, the individual believer must decide before God what he can and cannot do. Yet liberty must be handled carefully: if something is not wrong in your own mind but would cause a weak believer to stumble, you should refrain for his sake. Les illustrates with a good juicy T-bone steak—if a weaker believer questions it, the stronger believer should not eat meat for his sake until the weaker one can see it was not wrong. He also clarifies this is not about forgetting Sunday as a day of rest or the operation of the local church, but every day should be a Sunday, a day of recognizing God and giving Him all His due, without needing a particular day programmed into our schedule.