Gilded Grace
“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.” Acts 15:28-29 NKJV http://bible.com/114/act.15.28-29.nkjv While conservative minds pride themselves in their precious relationship with God based on strict moral commitments, the extreme generalization of these commitments often lead to undermining the working of God's grace and faith towards salvation for all men. Having resolved the bias attachment of the Jews to the law of Moses and the extension of the work of grace to the gentile world, the apostles and leaders in the early church still agreed on the efficacy of grace: "that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality". Clearly, the grace of God is not a freedom...