Acts 15:1-35

• Jerusalem Council
• the cause
• argument about circumcision
• Peter and James spoke to support Paul and Barnabas
• should not make it difficult for the Gentiles
• Paul and Barnabas
• risk their lives
• for Jesus Christ
• a letter was written for those back in Antioch
• minimum requirements:
• abstain from
  
• food sacrificed to idols
• blood
• meat of strangled animals
• sexual immorality
• 4 'bottom line' requirements: 3 for food 1 for moral standard;
• for all the moral standards they narrowed down to one: sexual morality;
• that shows how important that one single commandment is;