Confusion had arisen within the church over what is necessary for salvation when Gentiles began to be saved. Some were teaching that there was a need for Gentiles to live under the Mosaic Law after believing the Gospel. As a result, the apostles gathered in Jerusalem to clarify what God required for salvation and how their teaching was to be put into practice in each local church.
James, the Lord's half-brother, spoke as the representative of the Jews in Jerusalem, supporting what Peter, Paul, and Barnabas had been doing by quoting from the Old Testament prophets.
Gentiles were exhorted to have sensitivity in their fellowship with the believing Jews by using their liberty wisely as the Jews were learning to live their new life, no longer being under obligation to the Mosaic Law. In the exercise of their liberty they were counseled to abstain from food offered to idols; fornication; meat from strangled animals that did not have the blood drained; and blood was not to be consumed in any form.
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In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...
