A. Council at Jerusalem, vv1-29 - 1. conflict over circumcision, vv1-5 - 2. council at Jerusalem, vv6-21 --- a. apologetic from Simon Peter, vv7-11 --- b. answer from James, vv12-21 - 3. communication to Syria & Cilicia, vv22-29 B. Continued Ministry in Syria, vv30-41 - 1. correspondence received with joy, vv30-35 - 2. contention over John Mark, vv36-41
CONCERNING ACTS 15:20
Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910): "The observances suggested are a portion of the precepts enjoined by Judaism on proselytes. The two former were necessary to the Christian life; the two latter were not, but were concessions to the Jewish feelings of the stricter party. The conclusion may be called a compromise, but it was one dictated by the desire for unity, and had nothing unworthy in it. There should be giving and taking on both sides. If the Jewish Christians made, to them, the immense concession of waiving the necessity of circumcision, the Gentile section might surely make the small one of abstinence from things strangled and from blood. Similarities in diet would daily assimilate the lives of the two parties, and would be a more visible and continuous token of their oneness than the single act of circumcision."
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Jon Cardwell was saved by God’s grace on June 3, 1985 while serving in the military as a deep sea diver in the U.S. Navy. The call to ministry came 8 years later when he was invited to serve the Lord in the Philippine mission field. Jon’s entry into pastoral ministry came...
