Should Serious Christians Ever Compromise? (Acts 15) - The PursueGOD Truth Podcast | Unveiling...

Welcome back to the podcast! Today's world is full of conflicting thoughts, ideas, and problems. In this episode, we'll be answering the question: should serious Christians ever compromise?<br />
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Q. Should Serious Christians Ever Compromise? <br />
Might seem like a weird question<br />
Maybe you know Christians who never compromise<br />
Draw hard lines everywhere on everything. Totally unbending<br />
Ex: Halloween (www.pursuegod.org/should-christians-celebrate-halloween/) <br />
Ex: Tattoos<br />
The Fundamental Law of Legalism: Drawing a hard line in gray areas weakens the hard lines we draw in the black and white.<br />
So we have to be smart about compromise!<br />
Parents: could win the battle but lose the war<br />
Our strategy: don’t make a big deal of these gray areas (even though we still drew boundaries) – so our kids would take us seriously when we drew the line on serious issues<br />
A strange paradox: <br />
Biblical Christians draw hard lines in some areas<br />
And then they turn around and compromise in other areas<br />
Today: We’ll see the first time the church wrestled with this<br />
It was such a big question, they gathered in Jerusalem<br />
First church council<br />
Everybody was there! Peter, Paul, Barnabas, etc.<br />
To answer: When do we fight vs when do we compromise?<br />
I want to start at the end: where they landed<br />
In the words of Paul, later, to the church at Corinth<br />
It’s a great summary, and it shows you this is a thing<br />
Compromise, that is, for serious Christians<br />
Cause Pauls was serious, unbending<br />
Yet look at where he landed on this ?<br />
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1 Corinthians 9:19-21 (NLT) 19 Even though I am a free man with no master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ. 20 When I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to bring the Jews to Christ…. 21 When I am with the Gentiles who do not follow the Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of Christ.<br />
Hypocrite? No way! <br />
Jesus-centered vs. rule-centered<br />
Just wanted to point people to Jesus<br />
Therefore willing to compromise<br />
Heart issue<br />
Pointed Jews to Jesus by using the law of Moses<br />
Pointed Gentiles to Jesus without using the law of Moses<br />
All along obeyed the higher law “of Christ”<br />
Ie, not free to do whatever we want (antinomianism)<br />
compromising on the Lordship of Christ<br />
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Last week: Acts 14, Paul’s first missionary journey<br />
Proclaimed the gospel<br />
Contextualized the gospel for Gentiles<br />
Made disciples and commissioned them to make disciples<br />
Returned to home base, Antioch <br />
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Now we have a blended church, and with that came questions…<br />
Acts 15:1-2 (NLT) 1 While Paul and...<br />
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Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/23985441?utm_source=youtube