We know that our church today is not measuring up to what God asks of us. ...
Remember that council meeting that the brother of Christ (James) oversaw? It is in Acts. It was a completely new idea in the world that people could come to God and not have to be naturalized into the Jewish race to do it and the fight about it was fierce. Remember the outcome? Gentiles could be taught the plain gospel without being told they had to be physically circumcised or adjust their diet, those things were to be taught in spirit and truth only. At the same time, they were to learn all the Torah as it was taught in the synagogues.
Remember that council meeting that the brother of Christ (James) oversaw? It is in Acts. It was a completely new idea in the world that people could come to God and not have to be naturalized into the Jewish race to do it and the fight about it was fierce. Remember the outcome? Gentiles could be taught the plain gospel without being told they had to be physically circumcised or adjust their diet, those things were to be taught in spirit and truth only. At the same time, they were to learn all the Torah as it was taught in the synagogues.