
How Does the Church Achieve Diversity?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
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The Importance of Culture in the Early Church
In Acts 15, Jewish and Gentile believers are so divided over a particular cultural issues that they can't even worship together anymore. The apostles were like, yep, you Gentiles have a right to eat choke gophers if you want. And then James, the leader of the Jerusalem church, wraps up their decision by uttering one of the most important but overlooked phrases in the whole New Testament for what a church's mission philosophy should be.
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