This passage leaves us with questions we cannot definitively answer and good people have disagreed as strongly as Paul and Barnabas over it. While I am certain there is blame in this separation I’m not certain whose it is! Or ... what portion belongs to who! But this is what I know; God is merciful and long -suffering: He will take our foolishness, our faults and failures and turn them into building blocks for His kingdom! ‘We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose’.
John MacArthur
“Few things are sapping the strength of the church of Jesus Christ more than the unreconciled state of so many believers. So many have matters deeply embedded in their craws, like iron wedges forced between themselves and other Christians. They can’t walk together because they do not agree. When they should be marching side by side through this world taking men captive for Jesus Christ, they are acting instead like an army that has been routed and scattered and whose troops in their confusion have begun fighting among themselves. Nothing is sapping the church of Christ of her strength so much as these unresolved problems, these loose ends among believing Christians that have never been tied up. There is no excuse for this sad condition, for the Bible does not allow for loose ends. God wants no loose ends.”
TEXT: ACTS 15:32-41
SONGS:
HANDS TO THE HEAVENS, KARI JOBE
WHERE THE FREEDOM OF THE LORD IS, LIFE CHURCH
FALL AFRESH, BRYCE MOORE
BY OUR LOVE, FOR KING AND COUNTRY
