Today, read Galatians 2:1-10 alongside Acts 15:1-35.
Questions:
I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a more
The kind of “gift-community” we discussed in Part 4 would be remarkable in a world of greed, isolation, aggression, and more
The realization that Jesus “baptism” was actually an explicit instruction about how to make disciples should lead us to an more
Not only did Jesus tell us to make disciples, but he told us how to make disciples. In the Great Commission more
Jesus is the narrow gate through which we enter God’s Kingdom and are enabled to become His eikons again. No other person more
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It seems like the Christian Jews were only concerned about keeping one law for new gentile believers, that of circumcision but if all new gentile believers were asked to keep this law then what would stop the Christian Jews from requiring new believers to keep all the laws making what Christ did on the cross and resurrection irrelevant. Paul says that because of what Christ did and the Holy Spirit that now lives in us as believers we are free from these Jewish laws but we are to take care of the poor, live moral lives especially regarding sex and marriage, do not worship any other idols and do not offend anothers religious beliefs.