{"id":7552,"date":"2016-06-15T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2016-06-15T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:30:57","slug":"acts-15-council-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7552\/acts-15-council-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts 15 Council Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">I loved tonight &#8211; reading the Acts 15 council conversation.\u00a0 You could really see how Paul&#8217;s gospel would have been seen as such a deviation from the right gospel. I think it&#8217;s amazing how the scripture brings it out.\u00a0 But what really struck me tonight was how by itself, Paul&#8217;s gospel (seemingly) could not be believed and supported alone.\u00a0 It seems like an understanding of the Old Testament and Moses Law would have been crucial to Paul&#8217;s gospel. How could they understand the essence of the law and of what Paul was saying without that understanding?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We, at this time in history, have the benefit of having been exposed to Paul&#8217;s doctrine and just believed it without the same hindrances as they had. But sitting in the council tonight, I could see how unusual and what a deviation it was. Like others have said, it&#8217;s hard to be hard on those men, that didn&#8217;t believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">I love the Old Testament and I&#8217;m so glad you teach it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Jenny<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I loved tonight &#8211; reading the Acts 15 council conversation.\u00a0 You could really see how Paul&#8217;s gospel would have been seen as such a deviation from the right gospel. I think it&#8217;s amazing how the scripture brings it out.\u00a0 But what really struck me tonight was how by itself, Paul&#8217;s gospel (seemingly) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}