Cedar Hills Community Church - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Grace & Truth: No Small Dissention Pastor Kent LandhuisTHEME: The early church established communities of grace & truth. TEXT: Acts 15TRUTH: Disputes Happen.Acts 2:42-47Acts 4:12Acts 10:44-45Acts 13:1-2, 38-39Acts 15:1-2 - Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.Acts 15:5-7 - Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.” The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of th