a particular church might feel very superior to the younger folk who like contemporary music in their worship. They do not deny that the younger people are Christians, but they could claim that their music displeases and offends the Lord simply because it displeases and offends them. Thus they have taken an issue of taste, custom, or culture and elevated it to an abiding, trans-cultural mark of spiritual maturity. Verse 3 also shows us the natural attitudes of the strong and the weak toward