Do you know how to handle offensive things between brothers? 1 Corinthians 9-10

1 Corinthians 10:23 (NASBStr)

All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.

In chapter ten of this great letter to the church at Corinth, Paul addresses a very specific issue facing the early church that seldom, if ever, would face the average church in America.   But, the lesson may be the most practical for any church member, in any church, in any country.  (That is how God's Word works.  It teaches great principles of Godliness that can be applied to any circumstance in any age.)  In the Corinthian church the difficulty was the meat sold in the market place for daily consumption.   Apparently you could buy meat that had once been sacrificed to false gods, at a discounted price.  The difficulty in the church was that some were offended by eating meat once tainted in the idol practices of the false churches; others were not.   The question came up as to what to do IF you are invited to a feast and the meat was served?   What if I didn't know it was meat offered to some foreign God?  Was I guilty of that worship by eating their sacrifice?   Paul, in the above verse, is attempting to give the church an overarching principle to follow when making choices about such things. His premise is that the meat, in and of itself, is not good or bad.   He states that "all things" (speaking of food) is lawful to eat (no Biblical law forbidding it), but "all things" are necessarily beneficial or edifying to the church and to members within the church.  The principle is simply following Christ summarization of the entire Law of Moses: Love The Lord with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself.   If I love my neighbor as myself I am not going to do something with them or to them that doesn't edify.   In the proceeding verses Paul goes on to explain the specifics of this principle he lays out, but the key is that we realize that "things" are not good or bad, but rather how we use "things" or do "things" is what makes them edifying or beneficial.   Food is not good or bad.   If we use it to serve a foreign god (either a false god in a traditional worship service, or the god of our appetite and gluttony) it is sinful.   If we eat the meat (partake of a thing, drink a substance, engage in an activity) that is offensive to our brother we ought to avoid doing so, in front of our brother.  The word for "profitable" in the above passage is: sumphero, in the Greek. It means to "bring together."   The word for "edify" in the above verse is: oikodomeo - lit., “to build a house” (oikos, “a house,” domeo, “to build”), hence, to build anything,   So, Paul's overriding principle is that what we do in our Christian walk with others ought to be to build up others and bring us all together.   We are not here to tear down to disperse apart.  We are building the Body of Christ.  We ought not allow anything in this world, no matter what we call it, to tear us apart.   All the questionable activities of the believer are governed by this principle.   Practice it and we will see the Body of Christ the Building of the Church become strong.  Violate it and we will it torn apart.