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?
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Q. Should Serious Christians Ever Compromise?
Might seem like a weird question
Maybe you know Christians who never compromise
Draw hard lines everywhere on everything. Totally unbending
Ex: Halloween (https://www.pursuegod.org/should-christians-celebrate-halloween/)
Ex: Tattoos
The Fundamental Law of Legalism: Drawing a hard line in gray areas weakens the hard lines we draw in the black and white.
So we have to be smart about compromise!
Parents: could win the battle but lose the war
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
A strange paradox:
Biblical Christians draw hard lines in some areas
And then they turn around and compromise in other areas
Today: We’ll see the first time the church wrestled with this
It was such a big question, they gathered in Jerusalem
First church council
Everybody was there! Peter, Paul, Barnabas, etc.
To answer: When do we fight vs when do we compromise?
I want to start at the
