[size=+1]Acts 15:19 "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:"
James is telling the Gentiles that receive the salvation of Jesus Christ , don't need to be circumcised , and brought under the Old convenient blood covenant ordinances . Remember the entire argument in the Church was about the law, and how that law applied to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:20 "But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things, strangled, and from blood."
James doesn't want them to mix with heathen ways ,any longer.
The things strangled and from blood, has to do with the health laws. Braking a health law is not a sin to death, but it is a sin against the flesh; and it brings about sickness and disease .
These are the things that should be taught the Gentiles, for their own good. When you strangle an animal, the blood stays stagnant within the body, and this is why you must bleed an animal that is killed for food. Blood carried in the meat will pollute.
heathen practices allowed the blood to be mixed into their foods. So James is telling them to follow God's heath laws.[/size][/font]