Church Wide Debate

1. A _Stumbling Block_

Acts 15:1 NIV84

Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”

1. A Stumbling Block (v. 1)

2. Seeking of _clarification_

Acts 15:2–4 NIV84

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. The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.

2. Seeking of clarification (vv. 2–4)

3. _Conflict _remains

Acts 15:5 NIV84

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 obey the law of Moses.”

3. Conflict remains (V. 5)