1Cor 8:11-13 - The "Bigger" We Are....

11-13 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

But back to the example at hand. My knowledge - the knowledge from which I enjoy freedom in Christ regarding some matter indifferent to salvation and holy living - is not to become a matter of pride. I can never go down the path of thinking that I am something more than a weaker brother on account of my knowledge. If I have been given light to see, and he has not yet received that light, we still both answer to the same Lord. He must act as his conscience before God dictates - and so must I, even if the outward actions are quite different.

And the greater responsibility in the kingdom of God always rests with the person with the greater gift or the better understanding. Teachers and pastors are held to a higher standard. The one who has the light was given the light not for self-aggrandizement, but for body ministry. And that ministry can include having the light of freedom and not flaunting it. This glorifies God even though it may not be seen of men. For I do not make great fanfare out of my abstention for the sake of a brother because, as the Lord said, "Verily, verily they that do such things have their reward...". But will I quietly and with sensitivity simply take into consideration the genuine health of a brother’s soul?