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Do Not Make It Difficult For People To Turn To God

Acts 15:19-21

'It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.' (NIVUK)

James (the half-brother of Jesus) was summing up all the evidence. The apostles and elders had gathered in Jerusalem to decide if Gentiles could be saved, without submitting to Jewish religious rules (Acts 15:6-11). Peter, Paul and Barnabas had all seen Gentiles turning to God in repentance and faith as they heard the gospel of Jesus (Acts 15:12-14). But legalistic believers, who may previously have been legalistic Pharisees, demanded that the new Christians should be circumcised as Jews (Acts 15:1).